Aging with Dignity has uncovered the story of Eileen Mihich who was a lonely 31 year-old woman who fraudulently received a lethal assisted suicide poison cocktail even though she:
- She suffered from serious mental illness
- She was not a Washington resident
- No doctor verified she was terminally ill
- No waiting period was enforced
Eileen's story proves that there is no real oversight of the law. After contacting - A Sacred Passing: Death Doula, Eileen forged documents by claiming that she was a doctor and by claiming that she had stage 4 cancer.
The story of Eileen Mihich shows us how little oversight exists in the assisted suicide law. It also asks the big question, how did Eileen receive the lethal poison that killed her?
8 comments:
Thank you for posting this, Alex. I was Eileen's aunt and I am moved that her story is getting the attention that it so deserved.
Deep condolences. Such a sad and tragic story.
Makes me want to cry. -- Thomas Lester
Thou shall not kill !
Condolences to you, this is heartbreaking what the state of Washington did to your niece I will be praying đ for you and for your niece and an end to euthanasia
So very sorry for your loss, Eileen's aunt. I have children who struggle with depression and anxiety. It is deeply concerning that instead of recieving the assistance she needed, that Eileen was able to access lethal medications the way she did. While sharing cannot bring Elieen back, I hope her story can make a difference in helping others.
There has to be better accountability for such mistakes as these. At least France has imprisoned a physician/anesthetist for fraudulent killing of patients whom he used to show colleagues he was a "hero". He got life. We need to see more like this in a medical profession that has gone awry.
The video shows that one can objectively verify that a second doctor was not consulted (and would be shocking to think the first doctor would think it fine for the patient, even if she were a medical doctor as she claimed, would be acceptable), and that the drugs were prescribed prior to the required waiting period, so didn’t the doctor commit a crime? If “MAiD” is a carve-out exception to accomplice to murder laws, acceptable because of its “safeguards”, then the doctor acted outside “MAiD”. Shouldn’t the doctor be arrested and prosecuted under those laws? Otherwise, “MAiD” is no carve-out at all and the “safeguards” are meaningless. It simply legalizes clinicians assisting suicides.
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