Canada has become a Monty Python skit:
Concerns have been raised over questionable deaths. In this case, the woman – referred to as “Mrs. B,” had complications after a coronary artery bypass graft surgery. After a rapid decline, she opted for palliative care – and was sent home from the hospital for her husband to take care of her. As her condition worsened, the husband struggled to care for her despite visits by nurses.
After she allegedly expressed her desire for MAiD to her family, her husband called a referral service, the report reads. Yet, Mrs. B told the assessor she ‘wanted to withdraw her requests, citing personal and religious values and beliefs,” and instead wanted inpatient hospice care.
When her husband took her to the hospital the next morning, doctors deemed Mrs. B to be stable, but that her husband was “experiencing caregiver burnout.” A request by a doctor for in-patient hospice care due to her husband’s burnout was denied, after which her husband asked for a second assessor to weigh in, the Daily Mail reports.
After the second assessor judged her to be eligible for MAiD, the original assessor objected – expressing concerns over the alleged “urgency” of the request, and expressing the need for further evaluation. A request to meet with Mrs. B the next day was declined by the MAiD provider, as “the clinical circumstances necessitated an urgent provision.”
Then, a third MAiD assessor agreed with the second one, and Mrs. B was euthanized that evening.
“I feel happy! I feel happy!”
I think there would be a lot less euthanasia if the closest family member was required to administer it with a wooden club. It’s just a little too easy to farm things off to the white-coated angels of death.
And “caregiver burnout” is a thing now? How long will that take to trickle down to the streets?
“I was his caregiver, yo. I had no choice, he had me burnout!”