"Prior to Stegemann’s death that summer, Kranendonk had been her caregiver for the preceding 12 years and her medical power of attorney for the past six"
Posted on 09/20/2026 7:46:23 AM PDT by DFG
Two days before her Christian grandmother’s assisted dying procedure in Ontario, Canada, Brigitte Kranendonk sat her down to make sure she knew exactly what was going to happen.
‘I used very frank terms. I said: “Do you know that you’re going to die on Friday?”'
The 83-year-old was in visible disbelief and began crying for 45 minutes. ‘I’ve made a mistake,’ Brigitte Stegemann, known affectionately to her family as ‘GG’ or ‘Oma’, wailed.
‘She was bawling. Inconsolable,’ Kranendonk, a real estate agent who shares the same first name with her late grandmother, tells the Daily Mail.
In a cognitive test, designed to ascertain whether she was sound of mind enough to consent to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Stegemann ‘got every question wrong’, believing her two living siblings to be dead, according to Kranendonk.
Yet 48 hours after she wept uncontrollably at the notion of MAiD, Stegemann is said to have died with her hands clasped in prayer, covered in her own blood due to a botched first attempt at connecting the IV, administered by a nurse allegedly not wearing gloves.
Kranendonk is currently in the process of desperately appealing to the Chief Coroner’s Office in Ontario, as well as the Patient Ombudsman and Belleville Police, in a bid to ascertain whether what happened the morning of July 10 at The Pearl care home in Cannifton was legal.
Bereaved and distraught, she claims MAiD practitioners took advantage of her grandmother’s vulnerability to perform the procedure, which she alleges was carried out without express consent.
‘She was a vulnerable human being, and they saw an opportunity,’ Kranendonk says, her rage and sadness visible.
She suspects the MAiD practitioners were inappropriately ideologically motivated, and believes the chain of events leading up to the procedure should be investigated.
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"Prior to Stegemann’s death that summer, Kranendonk had been her caregiver for the preceding 12 years and her medical power of attorney for the past six"
The JAB does the same thing , subterfuge wise.
Canadian Liberal Party refuse to take care of sick Canadians they kill them and they DON’T kill Murders they take care of them
It’s not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.
Canada created MAID to get rid of all the old White people.
That is the consequence of putting in charge decline managers within the NHS. This is the natural consequence of “free” gov’mt healthcare.
Anyone suggesting Medicare for all is for this arranged murder.
A heartbreaking outcome. That old lady was fully ‘present’ or sufficiently cognizant within her body. Full focus with her eyes, a casual smile showing familiarity and trust, a gentle embrace of her granddaughter, using her arms and her hands. She was very much ‘present’ in that moment.
Her desire to keep living should have been heard and respected. What was the rush? Did they need that bed or that hospital room to be made empty asap. Or was it a matter of certain organs, still properly functioning within her body.’Maybe that’s what ‘they’ really wanted.
The history of all euthanasia programs is that they start out voluntary and soon evolve into coercive involuntary execution
And the leftists who will fight to the last ditch to stop a brutal serial killer from being executed will be fighting to make sure the assisted suicide goes as planned
I read recently how Canada has 14 MRI/CT scanning machines per million people, among the lowest of OECD nations
In the USA, that number is approximately 40 machines per million people
Its why people with orthopedic problems, cancer, etc... wait 8-12 months for diagnosis.
The extremely high taxes Canadians pay is justified by their leftist elites who say its necessary because Canada is a "compassionate" country. It's pure bullshit.
And when a disaster strikes there’s no money to repair the damage because maintenance money was spent on other stuff. Think of the dikes that were never reinforced in N.O. when Katrina hit.
Correct. They can be stopped, however, if only there was the will.
This is the inevitable, desired, and PREDICTABLE outcome of single-payer government controlled medical practice.
Government should never, ever decide when it’s time for someone to die. There is no greater determinant of freedom and self-determinism than the ability to define your own medical care. When a government takes over that you are no longer a free person. Period. There’s no valid argument to the contrary.
This is why letting government take over health care is suicide - literally.
Precisely.
Grandma raised a family of killers.
Canada is how you say “Murdering Monsters” in Inuit
This will happen in America once the commies pass their Single payer health care, this will be Canada times 1000..this is what communists have longed for, deciding who lives and who dies its the ultimate power trip
State sponsored murder because it’s cheaper than care. Simple as that.
Medicare is expensive for the recipients. I never paid this much when I was working.
Just don’t say Population Reduction
nor The Great Replacement
Because those are Just Silly Conspiracy Theories ™️
Ignore what is happening in Jolly Olde England,
Global Citizen
And they laughed at “Death Panels” in 2008
Obamacare will do the same thing in America
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