Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
A 51-year-old Nova Scotia woman felt pressured to ask for euthanasia. Henderson reports:
Speaking anonymously, the 51-year-old cancer patient said of the moment she was offered death instead of surgery: “It floored me... [it was] the most vulnerable I’ve ever felt in my life”.Henderson continues:
The patient, a married grandmother from Nova Scotia, explained she was set to undergo a mastectomy operation for breast cancer when a physician asked her if she knew about medical assistance in dying (MAID).
“I was sitting in two surgical gowns, one frontways and one backwards, with a cap on my hair and booties on my feet. I was shivering and in a hard plastic chair and all alone in a hallway,”The woman said that she was offered euthanasia again, nine months later, before undergoing a second mastectomy and then asked about MAiD a third time while in recovery from her second mastectomy.
“The [doctor] sat down and went through all the scary things with me. Then he asked ‘Did you know about medical assistance in dying?’
“All I could say was, ‘I don’t want to talk about that’.
“I was scared and I was alone and I was cold and I didn’t know what was coming.
“Why was I being asked about assisted dying, when I was on my way into what I truly believe was life-saving surgery?”
The woman said that she felt - Better Off Dead - when she was asked multiple times. Henderson reported:
She said the repeat offers made her feel like a burden to doctors and that people in her position “were better off dead”.
“I felt like a problem that needed to be [gotten] rid of instead of a patient in need of treatment.
“I don’t want to be asked if I want to die,”
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| Dr Leonie Herx |
staff-shortages are so bad in some Canadian hospitals that patients who are not at risk of imminent death are offered MAID before they’ve even had a chance to see a palliative care consultant.Herx's last comment concers the fact that the UK is debating the legalization of assisted suicide while the National Health Service is facing a massive funding gap.
In one instance, she claimed that one of her patients saw a MAID consultant first, and when she came back to check on him the next day, he had already been given an assisted death.
“In some cases, MAID has become the only therapy provided, which is completely horrific from a medical perspective,” Dr Herx said, in what will serve as a stark warning to the UK, where the NHS is facing a £37 billion funding gap with acute shortages in palliative care.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has received multiple complaints concerning family member or friends being asked if they want MAiD on multiple occasions. One woman asked us how to get the MAiD team to stop asking her husband if he wants MAiD. She said, he had already said NO five times.
10 comments:
This grandmother is just one example of the real horror of "death with dignity," "end of life care," "my body my choice," "right to die," "end of life journey," and all the other lies Canadians are offered in choosing euthanasia. Canada is a rich nation but so poor in spirit. Life is the only choice.
This is exactly what we feared from euthanasia, the slippery slope. Disturbing at any time, but truly disgusting when a patient is "offered" this when they are about to undergo major surgery (the mastectomy): how can they trust a doctor who suggests this? Or feel safe undergoing surgery from him or her? I can imagine the fear this poor woman felt, how alone and hopeless she must have felt. And the same for the others, the poor patient who could have been offered hospice care (though I have reservations about some of that, where patients seem to be denied food or liquids), and the woman whose husband was repeatedly "offered" MAID.
The MAiD/euthanasia providers are on an aggressive killing spree, and they need to be stopped. — Thomas Lester
One of the things I was told before I went in for surgery in 2010 was, and this was explicit: "Do NOT make any major life decisions for two weeks before and two weeks after the surgery!" Interesting that they would ask grandma to make a small choice on the operating table, just before surgery, so to speak...Guess assisted suicide isn't that big a deal. And then they asked again, and again...must have had a contest going.
Tragic and sad. Praise be to God she kept her wits and wasn't outsmarted by the devil's advocate. Thank You, Jesus.
Yes! They ARE most definitely "on a killing spree", as they HAVE to meet their quota of 90% depopulation by the year 2030. (Agenda 2030) So they are reeeeally amping up the pressure, at this point!
However (sadly), Euthanasia is not the ONLY way they are carrying out their (wicked) plans, as they are doing this in MANY ways. All we have to do is look around us at how they are fervently pushing abortions, same sex unions, supplying hormone blockers to children, allowing the drug addiction problem on the streets to (purposely) spiral out of control, through vaxxes, etc/ just to name a few.
A previous commenter also mentioned "...(where patients seemed to be denied food or liquids)... Yes! In the UK, they did that to my dear friend (Anita, who was in her middle to late 60's), after she received surgery for cancer of the womb.
While she was in the hospital (supposedly waiting to go to another place to be able to heal from the surgery), a nurse told her that since she had cancer they were going to stop giving her the food packs/packets that she had started receiving. Wait! What? Prior to that she had been encouraged because she was told the surgery had been a success!
I was shocked that they were just going to starve her to death & without even batting an eyelash...but that's exactly what they did! :'(
It's beyond disturbing, just how EVIL, cruel & devoid of compassion people have become. :( WOE unto them!
A friend told me the other day, "What we need is MAiL....Medical Assistance in Living not MAiD !"
I am onboard Mary. Medical Assistance in Living.
I am not a violent man, but this constitutes an assault on her. I would have not been so kind. After some violent reaction on my part toward the doctor to see how he fares over likewise being assaulted, I would personally disconnect myself and walk out in the gowns in defiance. Life, no matter how short is worth fighting for. It's time that the point is made that this has become a bridge too far.
Deacon William Orazio Gallerizzo
Catholic Pastoral Bioethics
This path of murder Trudeau is following is almost identical to the path of murder Hilter took in his murderous spree. Hitler murdered people with disabilities, the mentally ill, the incurably sick, and eventually ethnic cleansing. Research Aktion4.
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