Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
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| Cleo Gratton with his wife. |
When Cleo Gratton told his family he would rather die than go back to Health Sciences North in Sudbury, he wasn't exaggerating, his daughter says.
The 84-year-old from Chelmsford died last week of natural causes, shortly after he was approved for a medically assisted death, often known as MAID.
His daughter Lynn said he made that decision after a recent stay at the Sudbury hospital left him “beyond floored.”
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| Hallway Healthcare in Ontario |
Gratton was in the process of arranging a medically assisted death when he passed away naturally and peacefully at home, surrounded by his family on Oct. 26. But he wanted his story to be known, and asked that his family share it in the hope that it might spark change in what he saw as a deeply broken health care system.
His daughter, Lynn Gratton, wrote about her father’s experience on social media one day after he was rushed to Health Sciences North on Oct. 20 after experiencing pain. According to Lynn, her father waited in the emergency department for 12 hours before being moved to the seventh floor where he was placed in a hallway with no lighting, table for a food tray, phone or bathroom.
“A nurse who came to do an assessment on his feet had to look for flashlights and headlamp to do the examination,”
When doing an internet search on the problem with "hallway healthcare" in Canada one notices that this is not only a problem in Sudbury but rather a national problem.
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| Normand Meunier with his wife. |
There were also the stories of Sarnia Saikali and Dan Quayle, who both died by euthanasia in Victoria BC after experiencing long drawn out wait times for cancer treatment.
Mary Griffin reported by CHEK news that Danielle Baker, the daughter of Samia Saikali (67), wants changes to cancer treatment in British Columbia since her mother died by euthanasia after being forced to wait 10 weeks for an oncology appointment.
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| Dan Quayle with his wife. |
Legalizing euthanasia has not improved the Canadian healthcare system by killing people who may have otherwise required treatment, but rather it has created a death option for people who are not being properly cared for.
9 comments:
spend less on military and more on healthcare !
This is par for the course with a government that has lost its soul. Canada has hit rock bottom of the slippery slope of not caring for her own citizens .
How is it that we have a hallway with no lights, and that's not deemed unsafe by the nurses' union, while at the same time, therapeutic lights for Roger Foley are deemed unsafe and refused him?
Those conditions are deplorable and certainly gives patients a feeling of hopelessness, neglect and increasing pain and discomfort. How is it that pets are often treated with more care and respect ?
Tax the rich. -- Thomas Lester
As much as hospitals could use more funding, most of the hospital bureaucracy needs to be dismantled and put the money into patient care.
Canada has become ground zero to euthanize her citizens. The soul is gone, hope is extinguished. We are bearing witness to the rise of the 4th Reich where those not deemed worthy of living, eating, breathing, etc., are killed. Yes, killed because this is nothing short of murder and don't try to tell me this is "compassionate" when they whip that euthanasia option out quicker than a piece of gum in a wrapper.
I was also wondering that? From Helene
Government is pushing all these Euthanasia programs to save money
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