Delta Hospice continues working toward a euthanasia-free hospice.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Terry O'Neill reported for the BC Catholic on August 6, 2025 that the Delta Hospice Society, that has existed in Delta BC, for more than 30 years, is now be seeking to purchase property in Alberta in order to establish a euthanasia-free hospice.

O'Neill interviewed Angelina Ireland who is the executive director of the Delta Hospice Society who stated:

“We are actively looking for a property, and we have the money — hundreds of thousands of dollars — to buy,” Ireland said in an email interview. “It is a desperate situation in this country, and the Delta Hospice Society has been stalled, stonewalled, abused, and vilified long enough.”

A B.C. location remains the society’s first choice, but Ireland has been unable to get assurances from B.C.’s NDP government that it would not force the society to allow euthanasia in the proposed hospice.

The British Columbia Ministry of Health defunded The Delta Hospice Society and expropriated their hospice building in 2021 because the Delta Hospice Society refused to provide euthanasia (MAiD) on their premises.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition supports the goal of the Delta Hospice Society to establish and operate euthanasia-free hospices.

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Delta Hospice Society Press Conference at Parliamentary Press Gallery on May 7.

Press Release:

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Delta Hospice Society.
Parliamentary Press Gallery Room 135-B West Block Ottawa, 

Wednesday, May 7 at 9 am.

(Link to Press Conference recording)

Alex Schadenberg

Alex Schadenberg, the Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Angelina Ireland, the Executive Director of the Delta Hospice Society will be launching our new post election directions.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is demanding a full-review of Canada’s MAiD law. Schadenberg points out that:

On March 21, 2025 The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) urged the Canadian government to repeal Track 2 MAiD (MAiD for people who are not terminally ill) including the planned expansion to persons who “sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness” to reject proposals to expand MAiD to “mature minors” and through advance requests.

On October 17, 2024 the Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee (MDRC) report indicated that there were 428 non-compliant MAiD deaths in Ontario.

Angelina Ireland

The Delta Hospice Society is demanding that Healthcare Sanctuary be accepted as a human right for all Canadians. Facilities where they provide authentic healthcare, as opposed to “MAiD.” Angelina Ireland states that:

The world is watching the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the predatory euthanasia program known as MAiD.

The Canadian healthcare system is an international embarrassment as it turns against its own people to euthanize them.

For more information contact:

Alex Schadenberg: Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
519-851-1434

Angelina Ireland: Executive Director, Delta Hospice Society
778-512-8088

Canadian doctors push for euthanasia by organ donation.

An ethicist asks: Is the dead donor rule even relevant?

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Logan Washburn reported in the Federalist on January 8, 2025 that Canadian doctors are pushing for euthanasia by organ donation.

Currently euthanasia is linked to organ donation in Canada, whereby, people who are approved for being killed by euthanasia are also encouraged to donate their healthy organs. Some Canadian doctors and "ethicists" are pushing for a change in the law to permit euthanasia by organ donation. Washburn reports:

Canadian doctors have suggested killing euthanasia victims by taking their organs, according to multiple reports, whistle blowers, and public talks. Medical freedom advocates are documenting emerging ties between “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) and organ harvesting.

“The best use of my organs, if I’m going to receive a medically assisted death, might be to not first kill me and then retrieve my organs, but to have my mode of death — as we medically consider death now — to be to retrieve my organs,” said Rob Sibbald, an ethicist of the London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario.

Washburn reports that some Canadian physicians are pushing to permit euthanasia by donation.

Other Canadian doctors have publicly embraced “death by donation,” and a study came out earlier this year exploring euthanasia programs such as MAID as a means of organ harvesting. Canada legalized euthanasia in 2016, and since then the number of Canadians using MAID to kill themselves has significantly increased.

Canadian doctors are also challenging the "Dead Donor rule." Allowing euthanasia by organ donation would require a change to the dead donor rule since the donors would be alive. Washburn reports Sibbald as stating:

“But of the possible solutions to our pragmatic issues, we can continue to allow physicians to decide and let the conflict go to the courts.”

“We’re so invested in this dead donor rule,” Sibbald said. “That rule has become so ingrained in the medical community that we hold it out as a foundational principle. … And I think just as likely there are people who question that value now. And I know there’s perhaps not an appetite to go there, but raising the question — is the dead donor rule even relevant?”

He suggested death may not occur at one particular moment in time, and said the “best use” of organs from patients who are “going to receive a medically assisted death” could be to harvest them while the victim is alive.

“If, to meet your definition of the dead donor rule, you have to consider me dead once you’ve first put me under and you have no intention of bringing me back — well then fine, I can accept that if those are my values,” Sibbald said.

Sibbald suggests that doctors may need to ignore the dead donor rule and allow the courts to decide the outcome. Washburn reports:

“None of my previous comments should be taken as a suggestion that physicians should operate outside the bounds of existing legal or professional ethical standards.”

“Rather, I have suggested that in light of legal developments we should take time to consider whether other legal or professional standards are now also in need of update or reconsideration,” Sibbald said.

The argument is that removing organs before euthanasia will enable the best possible organs for the purpose of donation. Washburn continues:

While some MAID recipients “may want to be sure that organ procurement won’t begin before they are declared dead,” others may want “the option of donating as many organs as possible and in the best condition possible,” according to the article.

“Following the dead donor rule could interfere with the ability of these patients to achieve their goal,” the article reads. “In such cases, it may be ethically preferable to procure the patient’s organs in the same way that organs are procured from brain-dead patients (with the use of general anesthesia to ensure the patient’s comfort).”

Sibbald states that euthanasia by organ donation will require an amendment to Canada's criminal code. Canada's euthanasia law defines medical assistance in dying as the administration of a ‘substance’ by a qualified provider. By this definition,” the article noted, “organ retrieval is not an accepted cause of death.”

Even though Canada has become the "top" nation for organ donation after euthanasia, nonetheless in December 2022 there were still 3700 Canadians waiting for an organ donation. Washburn reported:

In Ontario, euthanasia deaths boosted organ donations in 2020. In Quebec, 14 percent of organ donors were MAID victims in 2022. One article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal includes a diagram of the MAID to organ harvesting pipeline. This was from 2019, when euthanasia was only allowed for those with foreseeable deaths. Now, doctors can end the lives of patients with unforeseeable deaths.

Angelina Ireland, who is the Executive Director of the Delta Hospice Society told Washburn:

“It is the ‘Canadian cull’ — a systematic elimination of the weak, sick, old, and vulnerable via the state euthanasia program called MAID,” Ireland said. “The Government has taken the most sacred right from its citizens, the power to kill them.”

Issues concerning euthanasia by organ donation and abandoning the "Dead Donor rule" are not new but Canada's experiment with euthanasia has made these issues more prominent.

One of the problems with legalizing euthanasia, as in Canada, is that the law permits doctors and nurse practitioners to kill their patients. The question then arises: why kill a person by lethal poison first and then remove the healthy organs when removing healthy organs first, is more efficacious and will naturally result in a dead person.

Further to that, the act of euthanasia makes it impossible to transplant the heart or lungs.

Killing begets more killing.

More articles about this topic:

• Euthanasia turning suicidal people into 'Kill and Harvest' natural resource (Link). 
• Let's not get rid of the Dead Donor rule (Link).
• No to Killing for Organs (Link).
• Canada leads the world in organ donation after euthanasia (Link).

October 24, 2023 free Zoom event: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Delta Hospice, and Compassionate Community Care.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC), Delta Hospice, and Compassionate Community Care (CCC) are offering a free online zoom event on October 24, 2023.

When: Tuesday, October 24, 2023

               4 pm Pacific (BC) Time 

               (7 pm Eastern Time)

Register in advance for this meeting: (Registration Link).

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information for joining the meeting.

Speakers

• Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition 
• Angelina Ireland, President - Delta Hospice Society
• Kathy Costa Matusiak, Executive Director - Compassionate Community  Care                  

Topics

Alex Schadenberg from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition will provide a "Canadian update" based on recent stories and current trends. 

Angelina Ireland from the The Delta Hospice Society will speak about plans to institute the Guardian Angels program with Delta Hospice Society directions.

Kathy Matusiak Costa from CCC will explain the success of the Being With Visitor Training program, the Advocacy Training program and other CCC updates.

Register in advance for this meeting: (Registration Link).

Event: Euthanasia Is Not The Answer To Our Healthcare Crisis (June 3) Victoria BC.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has co-sponsored a hybrid conference on Saturday June 3 in Victoria BC from 9 am to 12 noon (Pacific Time).

(begins at 12 noon in Ontario).

We have more than 200 online registrations.

The event is titled: Euthanasia is not the answer to our healthcare crisis - Killing is not caring.

This is a hybrid event whereby you can attend live in-person or attend live online. There is no cost to attend the event. (Register in person).

To attend the event online. Register in advance at: (Online registration Link).

For more information (Information Link).

The speakers include:

• Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition,
• Angelina Ireland, President, Delta Hospice Society,
• Catherine Glenn Foster, co-founder, EPC-USA.

Canada legalized euthanasia (MAiD) in 2016. Victoria BC has the highest euthanasia rate in the world.

Canada plans to implement euthanasia for mental illness alone in March 2024. Canada is now discussing expanding euthanasia to include children "mature minors" and incompetent people who made an advanced request in their power of attorney. There is discussion of euthanasia for people who are mentally incompetent with dementia and the Quebec College of Physicians is advocating for euthanasia of newborns.

Making Canadians aware and activating them to stop the killing.

What does the world think of Canada's killing?

Euthanasia Is Not The Answer To Our Healthcare Crisis - Killing is not Caring.