Family say it’s unacceptable that a taxpayer-funded hospital like St. Paul’s forces dying patients to leave its facility to get MAID.
Nor did her family expect that the hospital where she was treated for terminal cancer would deny her that right.
Canada’s federal legislation does not force any person or health care provider to carry out medically assisted death, so Dying with Dignity’s CEO Helen Long said such policies will remain in place unless there’s a successful court challenge. O’Neill’s decision to die with the help of a physician added a layer of trauma her family wasn’t prepared for.
“For somebody who’s at the point where MAID is their only option, transferring to a different facility is not as simple as it sounds,” Bodrug said. Especially upsetting was when O’Neill arrived at the hospice, the gurney barely fit into the room where the procedure was to be performed, leading to an awkward scene of paramedics and nurses pivoting the gurney a fraction at a time.
The B.C. Health Ministry’s policy on MAID acknowledges that not all doctors and nurse practitioners will provide medical assistance in dying because it may conflict with their beliefs.
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