Loading ...Catholic man accuses Canadian hospital of pressuring him to euthanize wife
‘Now that the health system offers both death and life, you must speak strongly and clearly if you want life.’
Richard Leskun, 75, whose 71-year-old wife Marilynn died in 2018, recently told The B.C. Catholic that staff at the Abbotsford Regional Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia repeatedly “pressured” and “badgered” him to let his wife die, and, when he refused, offered to euthanize her despite his continued insistence that he was pro-life.
However, hours later, when it became clear that his wife was dying, and Leskun finally agreed to sign the DNR order, he was told by nurses that it had already been put in place without his approval.