Families are Traumatized and Dead People Don't Talk

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Last week a story about Dr James MacLean, who works, along with his wife, with the Westmount Family Physicians in London, Ontario, met Thomas Dillon outside a Tim Horton's in St. Thomas, Ontario on June 27, 2023 where he assessed him for MAiD (medical homicide). MacLean assessed Dillon over a coffee, and possibly a donut, to decide if Dillon should live or die.

Kelsi Sheren explains in her substack:

On January 29, 2024, MacLean picked Thomas up again at the Tim Hortons and drove him personally to a room inside an industrial unit where cadavers are prepared for funeral transport. That’s where Thomas Dillon died. His family didn’t know where he was and his sister had shown up to the Tim Hortons. Thomas refused to let her ride along. The doctor drove him instead.

Dillon's sister

Dillon's family told the Globe and Mail reporter that he should not have been approved for medical homicide based on his physical and mental health.

Another complaint was filed against MacLean for how he did a medical homicide. Brian Williams and Sharon Kirkey wrote a report published by the London Free Press on May 27, 2026 that:

He’d (MacLean) ordered a MAID medication kit, but it wasn’t ready when he arrived at the pharmacy. He went to the home with a kit he already had.

According to the college, MacLean administered a sedative follow by propofol, a drug used during surgery that, in high doses, puts people in a coma.

The final drug customarily used paralyzes the muscles. Deprived of oxygen, organs shut down, one by one, until the heart finally stops.

But MacLean was unable to find the neuromuscular-blocking drug in his kit.

MacLean declared the man dead, when he wasn't dead, he left the scene of the crime, he was then informed that the victim wasn't dead yet, so MacLean returned and pumped him with more lethal poison. The family was traumatized.

I questioned in my previous article, if MacLean used left-over drugs from a previous killing?

There are many more instances of careless killings and traumatized families.

I was recently contacted by a family who's father was killed by medical homicide. The family was opposed to the killing but the father had agreed to get it done.

Killing kit items used to kill their father

The father was scheduled to die on a Tuesday, but since he lived in a rural area, the killing kit was delivered on the Friday (first shock). When the nurse practitioner arrived on the Tuesday to do the deed, the family left the house, as they didn't want to witness the killing.

When the family returned they found a dead father and the items from the killing kit that had everything in it that was used to kill their father, including some items with bodily fluids on it and left-over poison.

It is bad enough that the father was killed but to leave the kit behind was traumatizing.

This was not a MacLean killing but the fact that MacLean only received a slap on the wrist (6 months of oversight) is ridiculous. 

Euthanasia activists suggest that the law is working. MacLean made mistakes, but he was caught and he is now being punished. I guess it doesn't matter that Dillon's family have no idea how his death was approved, but of course, Dead People Don't Talk.

These cases are the tip of the iceberg since relevant witnesses, in these cases, are dead and the families are traumatized and usually unwilling to file a complaint.