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Posted on 01/22/2026 8:51:46 PM PST by Morgana
An elderly woman was euthanized within hours of her husband claiming she changed her mind after insisting she wanted to live.
Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying laws allow patients to request a painless death if an assessor agrees their terminal condition meets certain requirements.
Patients often wait weeks, but it can happen the same day the application is lodged if judged to be medically urgent by a MAiD provider.
But a report by the Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee raised concerns that safeguards were being eroded that led to questionable deaths.
One case study was that of a woman in her 80s referred to as 'Mrs B' who had complications after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
She went into severe decline and opted for palliative care, and was sent home from hospital with palliative support with her husband caring for her.
But as her condition got worse, her elderly husband struggled to care for her even with the help of visits by nurses.
'Mrs B reportedly expressed her desire for MAiD to her family. In response, and on the same day, her spouse contacted a referral service on her behalf,' the report read
However, she told the assessor she 'wanted to withdraw her request, citing personal and religious values and beliefs' and instead wanted inpatient hospice care.
Her husband took her to hospital the next morning where doctors found she was stable but her husband was 'experiencing caregiver burnout'.
Mrs B's palliative care doctor applied for in-patient hospice care due to her husband's burnout, but it was quickly denied.
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If you want to die shoot yourself in the head. Otherwise don’t ask favors from others.
Maybe Bill Clinton should move there.
Oh geeze. Bring out yer dead
Mark my words: “Requested” will soon become “mandatory”.
He must have really loved her. (sarc).
Canada will be the first country to produce Soylent Green. Asians will consider it a delicacy.
That sounds like murder.
Euthanized against her will.
What a nice way to say “Murdered”
YEP
If the husband was in such a bad case of burnout, why didn’t they put him out of his misery instead?
I’m glad I don’t know any of the following commentors:
“If you want to die shoot yourself in the head. Otherwise don’t ask favors from others.”
“Oh geeze. Bring out yer dead”
“Canada will be the first country to produce Soylent Green. Asians will consider it a delicacy.”
Canadians might wait months for medical referrals a day treatment with their national health care, but with euthanasia it’s an express train to death with no getting off.
This is a repeat but I believe relevant to this article.
A good friend's father was hospitalized a few years ago with a heart attack and hooked up to machines. The attending doctor didn't think the old man would make it.
My friend, respecting Dad's wishes to not be on machines, signed a paper approving the de-machining and putting the Dad on "comfort care" which (IN GENERAL) is basically no curative care.
That was ok - that was the Dad's wishes.
The old man pulled through, but the hospital refused to put Dad back on fluids or nutrition because - you guessed it - "comfort care" IN THAT HOSPITAL and for THAT DOCTOR is effectively Terri Schaivo-style starvation and dehydration.
They said - and if you follow the link you’ll see concurrence from other ghouls - food and water was a medical treatment and thus "curative" and AGAINST the rules of "comfort care."
My friend was stunned. And the attending and her team wouldn't budge - ”you signed the document giving consent.”
For the next few days, my friend and siblings heard from scores of nurses etc that withholding fluids was effectively "the right thing to do"....very Terri Schaivo-like. They also threw in “Dad live a good long life” and “he will never come back the way he was.”
It took a virtual miracle whereby a different doctor intervened, said the father clearly wasn't terminal, and put the old man back on nutrition and fluids.
While my friend's Dad passed away peacefully in his sleep a few weeks later, it was on the Dad’s terms.
It’s also worth noting that the siblings were split on “comfort care.” There WAS a view that it was ok for Dad to dehydrate to death. Someone even said that dehydration is painless; I heard the total opposite during the Schaivo murder.
Euthanasia in the US is, technically, illegal. And I know many people would be OK if fluids were withheld when it is THEIR time to go. Fair enough.
But euthanasia can be made legal in America, if you're not careful with the Fine Print or vetting the "mercy killing" mindset of the attending.
““Oh geeze. Bring out yer dead”
This is a funny, funny comment based upon a Monty Python bit in ‘The Meaning Of Life” and is QUITE pertinent and erudite.
I believe that DNRs and “comfort care” are signatures for euthanasia in all 50 states.
The old “I don't want to be hooked up to machines” is a falsehood that pulls people into the web.
After my experiences with the health care system in several states and the VA, I would NEVER sign a DNR. That gives hospitals the legal basis to withhold treatment for any reason even their own mistakes.
My FIL was hospitalized at a university medical center where the attending came in and wanted us to sign a DNR. He said the old man had lived a long life and treatment wouldn't “prolong his life according to research out of Canada”.
I convinced the family there to say no and went home to look up the research.
It claimed that that “prolonging life” meant more than TWO YEARS. After the lab results came in, they gave him a couple days of a simple antibiotic and he went home and lived for three more years.
So yeah, euthanasia is here and they teach it at the university level.
This is built in the system.
“Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying laws allow patients to request a painless death if an assessor agrees their terminal condition meets certain requirements.” I wonder how many people in Canada apply for the job ‘assessor’? Pretty gruesome job.
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