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Joseph Shabason's 'Westmeath' Confronts The Hardest Decision

In the face of degenerative illness, a mechanic decides to take his life — it's a concept directly inspired by Shabason's own experience.
A still from the video for Joseph Shabason's "Westmeath."

The Canadian saxophonist , who plays with , and his wife watched his father-in-law, a professor whose "mind was everything," slowly degenerate from Parkinson's. Eventually, his mother was also diagnosed with the incurable disease. "Seeing somebody

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