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Canadian Man Says Hospital Staff ‘Pressured’ Him to Euthanize His Wife
Catholic News Agency ^ | 2/7/23 | Terry O'Neill

Posted on 02/13/2023 7:16:07 PM PST by marshmallow

Vancouver, Canada, Feb 7, 2023 / 15:10 pm Richard Leskun remained at his wife Marilynn’s side nearly 24 hours a day after she was admitted to Abbotsford Regional Hospital, the result of a fall from her wheelchair.

Over the next several days Leskun found himself not only caring for his 71-year-old wife but also fending off efforts by medical staff to let her die, before they offered to do the job themselves.

The Sunshine Coast widower is sounding the alarm over what he says is a shocking and dangerous bias in the medical system toward the promotion of death for sick and elderly patients.

Leskun, 75, made the charge after he said medical staff at the Abbotsford hospital “pressured” and “badgered” him to allow his wife of 50 years, Marilynn, to die, and then suggested that he let her be euthanized.

Already fragile from the debilitating effects of dementia, Marilynn, 71, had entered the hospital after falling from her wheelchair and breaking vertebrae in her neck.

Leskun, who was a member of St. James Parish in Abbotsford at the time and now lives in Secret Cove, told The B.C. Catholic in an interview that over the course of eight days staff asked him five times whether they could place a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) designation on his wife.

He said he strongly objected each time and also made his pro-life views known at a family conference with hospital staff.

“At that meeting, I was very clear: I’m a Catholic and I’m absolutely against medically assisted dying,” he recalled saying. “I’m against euthanasia. I want my wife to live. I want her to continue living. We’ve had a good life for 10 years, even though she has dementia. I was very clear.”

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TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: atrocity; murder
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1 posted on 02/13/2023 7:16:07 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

I don’t think I’d want to live in Canadia.


2 posted on 02/13/2023 7:18:37 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: marshmallow

Right to Die = Duty to Die


3 posted on 02/13/2023 7:18:59 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marshmallow

Canada is now being flooded with Mexicans who don’t like New Yawk so the hospitals need those beds for non-Canadian, foreign nationals.


4 posted on 02/13/2023 7:19:19 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: marshmallow

This is coming here soon. Satanism has taken control of the West.


5 posted on 02/13/2023 7:25:28 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: canuck_conservative

PING!

Have you experienced any pressure on yourself or your family or your friends to agree to euthanasia??


6 posted on 02/13/2023 7:26:56 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: marshmallow

The staff probably got a bonus for each victim they signed-up


7 posted on 02/13/2023 7:28:40 PM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: Jamestown1630

I’m confused. Don’t we all have DNRs? I mean I believe none of us want machines living for us. Perhaps it’s different in Canada.


8 posted on 02/13/2023 7:45:14 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country!)
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To: marshmallow

Well, by golly. Try that with any of my loved ones and we’ll all be on the evening news. Because it would be one hell of a bloody fight.


9 posted on 02/13/2023 7:54:23 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: marshmallow

Isn’t free healthcare wonderful?

Once the patient is dead the cost is free


10 posted on 02/13/2023 8:00:36 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: napscoordinator

Yes, we have them, too. Some patients who are cognizant enough choose to sign their own DNRs.


11 posted on 02/13/2023 8:01:04 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Oh please, leave the Mexicans out of this. They have nothing to do with Canada’s inexplicable desire to rid itself of its own citizens.


12 posted on 02/13/2023 8:02:30 PM PST by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: napscoordinator

There was a story just recently about someone who had gone through sexual transition surgery/therapy, and was so unhappy with the outcome that they wanted to seek medically assisted suicide.

Another person was offered it simply because they were disabled and had been seeking for years an accommodation to help her navigate her home.

Apparently, in Canada, it’s not just for people who are on life support.


13 posted on 02/13/2023 8:06:49 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

If you’re old, you do not want to live in Canada.

The first thing they will ask you at an emergency room in Canada... ‘Would you like to be on the DNR (Do not resuscitate) list?’ The second thing they will ask you is... ‘Would you like to be on the DNR list?’ The third question they will ask you is... ‘Would you like to be on the DNR list?’

No concrete proof, but I’m pretty sure they give nurses bonus pay for everybody they can get on a DNR list.

My father went to a hospital in 2015 when he was 85... They asked dozens of times whether or not he wanted to be on a DNR list... Being a good catholic he said no every time and they operated on him to implant a pacemaker later that day... He lived for about another two and half years... Dying a month or two short of being 88.

He enjoyed every minute of his life as much as he could, and as everybody should.


14 posted on 02/13/2023 8:09:12 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod

I’m glad your father lived that much longer. It isn’t up to medical institutions to decide when our quality of life is no longer good enough for us.

I have a friend whose mother is in a ‘home’, and she doesn’t recognize anyone anymore. He feels bad about this and believes she has no more real life.

I tell him that he has no idea what real life she is still living within. It’s nobody’s right to decide FOR her to take that away.


15 posted on 02/13/2023 8:14:44 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: NWFree

There ya go, eh?!


16 posted on 02/13/2023 8:23:14 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: jerod

They do the same here.


17 posted on 02/13/2023 8:24:08 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Jamestown1630

“I don’t think I want to live in Canada.”

Lucky for you, the Canadian government will help you get your wish.


18 posted on 02/13/2023 8:33:33 PM PST by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: napscoordinator

You’ve been misinformed. Never sign a DNR.


19 posted on 02/13/2023 9:00:40 PM PST by Varda
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To: marshmallow

This reminds me of a TNG Star Trek episode where Lwaxana Troi falls in love with Timicin, a scientist who is attempting to test his theories of stellar ignition in the hopes of saving his world’s dying star. The experiment fails, and Lwaxana encourages Timicin to continue his research. But as he is about to turn sixty years of age, he prepares instead for a ritual suicide.

According to Timicin’s cultural tradition, his people voluntarily choose euthanasia to prevent the aged from becoming a burden to the younger generation.

This episode “Half a Life” tells me that liberal Gene Roddenbery and writers of this plot suspected - or hoping - such concept will be coming eventually.


20 posted on 02/13/2023 9:55:00 PM PST by Deaf and Discerning
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