The Vancouver hospital is operated by a Catholic agency that refuses to allow MAID on religious grounds.
Bodrug shared her cousin’s text from Feb. 14 when she received news she had qualified for assisted dying: “it’s crazy to even be eligible. like how. i’m 34. this doesn’t seem real.”
That transfer on April 4, to St. John’s hospice run by Vancouver Coastal Health, stripped O’Neill of the dignity MAID is supposed to provide on the last day of her life, Bodrug said.Article content “Instead of having a goodbye, where she could just say goodbye to friends and family, she had to get heavily medicated to withstand the pain of just getting to the appointment,” her cousin said.Article content
Providence said that since medically assisted dying became legal in Canada in 2016, 402 of its patients have made formal requests for MAID and 131 have followed through with a transfer to other facilities.Article content
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