This article was published by Kelsi Sheren on her substack on February 20, 2026.
He Paid for the Drugs That Ended His LifeBy Kelsi Sheren
Kiano
flew from Ontario to BC to end his life with (MAID) euthanasia. The Dr. Who ended
his life not only did it after another Ontario Dr, Dr. Tepper, wouldn’t
kill him at MAIDHOUSE after his mother went to the media to stop the
death.
Ellen[Wiebe] has a record of dancing on the line of “acceptable” MAID deaths.
“On Oct. 27, 2024 a British Columbia judge intervened to prevent Dr. Ellen Wiebe,
or any other doctor, from causing the death of a mentally ill Alberta
woman. Justice Simon Coval granted a 30-day injunction to the woman’s
common-law partner, one day before her death was scheduled to take place
at Wiebe’s Vancouver clinic. A civil claim alleges Wiebe approved the
woman’s request for MAID after a single Zoom meeting and without
consulting her doctors. Wiebe declined to comment when contacted by
National Post.”
On December 11, 2025, pharmacy records show
that 26-year-old Kiano Vafaeian filled a series of prescriptions at
Macdonald’s Prescriptions Ltd. in Vancouver.The prescriber listed on each receipt: Dr. Ellen Wiebe. The most prolific MAID “PROVIDER” in the country.
The NON FDA APPROVED FOR KILLING DRUGS dispensed were:
• Midazolam injection
• Propofol injection
• Rocuronium bromide injection
• Bupivacaine injection
• A line item labeled “1 MAID”
The drugsEach receipt lists a “Patient Pays” amount. In total, the records
show hundreds of dollars paid directly by the patient on top of the
flight he took across the country and $300-495 he paid KORU funeral home
to be killed there.
This combination of drugs is consistent with a
standard intravenous Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) protocol in
Canada. Midazolam is used to sedate. Propofol induces deep anesthesia.
Rocuronium causes paralysis and respiratory arrest. Bupivacaine may be
used in certain protocols. The medications are administered by a
physician once legal eligibility criteria are met.
Nineteen days
later, on December 30, 2025, Kiano Vafaeian died under Canada’s assisted
dying death regime, but not at Ellen’s Willow Clinic location in
Vancouver where normally she ends their life. This time it was much,
much darker.Kiano took himself, by himself to a FUNERAL HOME
where he met Ellen. Koru Cremation in Vancouver to be exact. According
to official documentation, the location of death was Koru Cremation in
Vancouver — a funeral home.
The receipts raise a stark and
uncomfortable reality: the medications used in assisted death are
prescribed, dispensed, and financially transacted like any other
pharmaceutical product. The documentation shows the patient paid for the
prescriptions issued in his name.
Under Canadian law, MAID is a legal medical procedure if strict
eligibility criteria are met. Mental illness alone is not currently
sufficient to qualify. A patient must have a grievous and irremediable
medical condition, be in an advanced state of irreversible decline,
experience intolerable suffering, and possess decision-making capacity.Kiano’s
mother has publicly alleged that approval for MAID was based primarily
on mental illness. Dr. Wiebe has publicly stated she has never approved a
patient who did not meet all legal criteria.
Those are two conflicting narratives, pro death and pro life.
The
receipts do not answer whether the legal criteria were properly
applied. They do not reveal the assessment process. They do not explain
how eligibility was determined.What they do show is this. A
26-year-old young man with mental health issues and diabetes flew
himself to a different province away from his family, obtained and paid
for the medications used to kill him.
That fact alone forces a
deeper question about the structure of Canada’s assisted dying system.
When assisted death becomes a prescription, dispensed with a receipt and
a debit transaction, what does that say about how the system
conceptualizes suffering, autonomy, and medical responsibility?
Supporters and cowards call it “compassion and choice.”
People with two eyes and a brain call it abandonment and normalization of state sanctioned killing.
The
documentation does not resolve that moral divide but it puts a clear
line in the sand. It does make one thing undeniably clear. This was not
an abstract policy debate, this was the killing of a 26-year-old young
man who deserved real help, REAL healthcare and a system that wouldn’t
let him fall through the cracks.
But what he got was a Dr who
knows how to work the system, drugs that are NOT FDA approved for
killing and a system who valued him more dead than alive.
It was a set of prescriptions.
A named physician.
A pharmacy counter.
A transaction.
And a young man who did not live to see the new year.
I
called KORU to see if this was an option, unbelievably shocked how easy
and dark it sounded “a provision” This is the dark country of Canada.
This appeared on Kelsi Sheren’s Substack and reposted with permission.
