Posted on 06/05/2026 1:23:32 PM PDT by Morgana
On May 27 an article by Brian Williams and Sharon Kirkey that was published by the London Free Press on May 27, 2026 reported on the euthanasia deaths by Dr James MacLean.
Dr James MacLean is one of the few doctors to be sanctioned for unprofessional conduct related to his euthanasia deaths. One of the complaints included a euthanasia assessment that was done at a Tim Horton’s coffee shop while another concerned a “botched” euthanasia death whereby MacLean declared the man dead, when he wasn’t dead…
Sharon Kirkey wrote a difficult article that was published by the National Post on June 3, 2026 concerning euthanasia complications that challenges the “good death” paradigm that is sold by the euthanasia lobby. Kirkey wrote:
An Ontario man groaned, grimaced and repeated “help me” while undergoing doctor-assisted death after one of the drugs didn’t produce the anticipated level of sedation, initially leaving him conscious.
Kirkey suggests that people should be informed that some euthanasia deaths involve significant suffering.
Cases of MAID that do not proceed as planned were highlighted last week in media reports involving the 2024 death of Bradley Stewart, an Ontario man who resumed breathing after being pronounced dead by a London, Ont., family doctor and MAID provider — a traumatic experience his siblings who witnessed his mishandled death are still recovering from.
Brian Williams and Sharon Kirkey wrote in an article published by the London Free Press on May 27, 2026 that:
He’d (MacLean) ordered a MAID medication kit, but it wasn’t ready when he arrived at the pharmacy. He went to the home with a kit he already had.
According to the college, MacLean administered a sedative follow by propofol, a drug used during surgery that, in high doses, puts people in a coma.
The final drug customarily used paralyzes the muscles. Deprived of oxygen, organs shut down, one by one, until the heart finally stops. But MacLean was unable to find the neuromuscular-blocking drug in his kit.
MacLean declared the man dead, when he wasn’t dead. He left the scene of the crime. He was then informed that the victim wasn’t dead yet, so MacLean returned and pumped him with more lethal poison.
The family was traumatized.
Kirkey also reported about another case known as “Mr. D.,” an 87-year-old man with congestive heart failure who died by euthanasia in 2023. Kirkey describes the euthanasia death.
The MAID provision took place at his home, the same day he was transferred home from hospital.
Once settled, two intravenous sites were established.
The doctor administered the first drug, midazolam, a Valium-like sedative. Next lidocaine was injected to numb the vein and prepare it for the next injection, propofol, a coma-inducing drug that can burn and sting upon injection.
Midazolam is meant to put people in a deep state of relaxation. People often fall asleep.
However, “During the first three minutes. Mr. D experienced signs of physical and psychological distress, including groaning, guarding (tensing muscles) and grimacing,” reads the case review.
“Mr. D did not experience expected sedation” from the midazalom and remained conscious.
“His behavioural signs of distress escalated to repeated verbalizations, including ‘help me’ that continued until sedation was achieved with propofol and a comatose state was confirmed,” according to the case report.
Kirkey explains that the family experienced significant distress related to their father’s euthanasia death:
“These unfortunate end-of-life circumstances created profound distress for the family. They witnessed their father suffering with physical and psychological distress and these final memories stay with them.”
The family “shared reflections such as powerlessness to change the course of their father’s final suffering, anguish regarding the decision to support their father through the MAID process and immense grief and sorrow regarding their final memories with their father,” according to the case review.
Studies show that complications with euthanasia do happen. Kirkey reports:
In a survey of 335 Canadian emergency doctors, three reported having seen MAID patients come to emergency because of IV failure.
A 2022 study of 3,557 MAID deaths in Ontario and Vancouver between 2016 and 2020 found complications in 41 cases (1.2 per cent). Most fell into one of two categories, the authors reported: obtaining or maintaining IV access, or prolonged time to death requiring a second kit of MAID medications.
Kirkey further describes the death of Bradley Stewart. Stewart, had liver cancer, had fell unconscious three days before his death. Kirkey reports:
MacLean was called to the house three days later, after Stewart had become unresponsive. Stewart was surrounded by his siblings, family members and friends. His three chihuahuas were perched on his bed. MacLean injected midazalom and propofol. But missing from his briefcase was a third drug that paralyzes the muscles and stops breathing. After injecting the propofol, and unable to hear a heartbeat, he pronounced Stewart dead and left.
I questioned in my previous article, if MacLean used left-over drugs from a previous killing? After reading this article it is clear that MacLean used left-over drugs from previous killings. Kirkey writes that the death had a profound effect on the family. The family was upset about the minimal penalty that MacLean received. Kirkey writes:
They’re angry that despite finding serious concerns with Maclean’s MAID practice — including a second complaint involving his assessment of a MAID patient outside a Tim Hortons — MacLean wasn’t brought before a disciplinary hearing by his licensing college. Instead, he agreed to a minimum of six months’ clinical supervision, among other voluntary undertakings. He is permitted to continue practising MAID.
“It literally was a slap on the wrist,” Townsend said.
“It shocks me because, in a lot of jobs, that’s the kind of action that would have got someone fired and yet they are literally saying it’s remediation,” Stewart-Mott said.
“They had the ability to suspend his doing MAID but never went down that road.”
Dr Ramona Coelho a London family physician and former member of the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario’s MAID death review committee. told Williams and Kirkey in the May 27 article:
“What is striking is not only the seriousness of the concerns identified in these cases, but the limited regulatory response,”
“The level of scrutiny and accountability applied to MAID is inconsistent with how other serious medical procedures are regulated,”
Dr Coelho commented on the notion that Canada’s euthanasia law operates well.
The federal government “frequently points to the absence of criminal findings or disciplinary action as evidence that the MAID system is functioning safely,” she added.
“Cases such as these, along with those documented (by the coroner’s MAID death review committee) confirm that important gaps in oversight and accountability remain.”
The Chief Coroner of Ontario established the Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee that published multiple reports underlining the concerns with the law. Even though that report found cases of people who had no actual medical condition or who died by euthanasia based on poverty or a lack of proper housing, none of those cases were then brought to the CPSO to determine if any sanctions should be applied to the doctors and nurse practitioners who caused those deaths.
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Should give the “doctor” the exact same drugs, in the exact same sequence and timing.
Buyers remorse.
Give him a taste of his own medicine.
Whatever happened to “First, do no harm.”?................
Since no-reason assisted suicide is now the latest leftist craze, doesn’t that put the suicide hotlines out of business?
“Suicide hotline, how can I help you?”
“I’ve been thinking of killing myself lately.”
“Isn’t freedom wonderful? I’ll send you a list of qualified doctors.”
Dang, normally government is usually pretty good at killing people.
This article was painful to read. I can’t believe that any of this is legal. Also, it seems that, at least in the cases cited, the providers showed an unconscionable level of incompetence. I guess the reasoning is it doesn’t matter if the doctor is incompetent because success is achieved when the patient dies, not in how he dies.
Once in my younger years I had a badly ingrown toenail. I went to a podiatrist who was drunk. I was desperate and dumb and let him work. Turns out he was a former surgeon who had been banned from surgery. My guess is the doctor’s doing MAID have similar stories. Possibly former medical professionals who are now banned from doing their prior jobs and reduced to killing people who actually want to die. But not really competent enough to do a good job of it.
Okaying someone for the procedure in locations outside of a medical setting leads me to believe at least some of the doctors don’t even have an office. Recently I read a doctor met someone outside a restaurant and talked him into the procedure. Shocking.
One thing they never mention with regard to assisted suicide:
When they interviewed people who tried to kill themselves by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge (and others), ALMOST EVERY ONE OF THEM SAID THEY REGRETTED AFTER THEY JUMPED!
Should have called the Mounties and told them that a Sikh just stabbed him.
I saw a documentary about.
🤔💉. I’ve gone under general anesthesia several times. They could have sent me on my way and I’d never have known. So, poor procedures or what?
Good thing he was Jewish.
It really hurt!
Especially by those not really suffering to begin with.
Heard about that, but I haven’t seen it.
Why?
He went for a walk
Poster finds them disposable.
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