Loading ...Elderly Canadian woman offered euthanasia before doctor even asked what was wrong with her
An 84-year-old woman said that when a doctor approached her at Vancouver General Hospital last year, ‘the very first words of out her mouth’ were an offer of assisted suicide.
“I am 84 years old, and a year ago, an amazing thing happened,” Miriam told Amanda Achtman, the founder of the Dying to Meet You Project. “When I got out of bed one morning, I was suddenly in excruciating pain, so much so that my daughter came running in from another room.” “She called an ambulance,” Miriam said. “Off I went to the Vancouver General Hospital, and I was approached by a young lady doctor. The very first words out of her mouth [were]: ‘We would like to offer you MAID.’ I was taken aback—that was the last thing on my mind! I just wanted to find out why I was in pain! I did not want to die!”