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The family of a Vancouver woman who was forced to transfer hospitals before she could receive medical assistance in dying (MAID) is suing the province of British Columbia and Providence Health Care, saying the health authority's policy to ban MAID in its facilities violates patients' Charter rights.
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She was being treated at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, but could not have the procedure to end her life there because the hospital is operated by Providence — a Catholic health organization that opposes the practice.
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"In the course of her transfer, Ms. O'Neill was first moved to a commode. The last time her parents saw her conscious and to say their final goodbyes was while Ms. O'Neill sat on the commode. She was then heavily sedated for the ambulance transfer," reads the statement of claim.
"During the transfer, Ms. O'Neill was writhing and moaning in pain and had to receive a further injection of pain medication. She spent her last hours unable to see, hear or feel any of the people who had gathered to support her.
"Ms. O'Neill did not regain consciousness after being sedated for the ambulance trip."
She died on April 4, 2023.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...maid-1.7237176
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Nineteen people this year have been forced to transfer out of Providence Health Care facilities to access medical assistance in dying (MAID), a scenario advocates say proves the attempted fix by the province isn't good enough.
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The health authority received more than $800 million in public funding last year to operate hospitals, long-term care facilities and hospices in the Lower Mainland.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...239214?cmp=rss
Why the #### are public dollars going to support ghoulish practices like this? Canadians have a right to die with dignity, but due to an organization that rapes and abuses children and protects the perpetrators, these poor suffering victims are left to die in anguish. And somehow, our tax dollars support this. I'm sure some will get used to settle the lawsuits, too, which is fan-####ing-tastic.
Can we please get rid of this archaic nonsense already? No religious institution should be publicly funded with tax dollars. That we have education and health managed by these evil organizations happy enough to indoctrinate children and let people die in horrible pain is tragic and infuriating in this modern world. Unreal people still go to church every Sunday to endorse these monstrous views.