{"id":692898,"date":"2026-03-20T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=692898"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:54:03","slug":"elderly-canadian-woman-offered-euthanasia-before-doctor-even-asked-what-was-wrong-with-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=692898","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Canadian woman offered euthanasia before doctor even asked what was wrong with her"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>An 84-year-old woman said that when a doctor approached her at Vancouver General Hospital last year, \u2018the very first words of out her mouth\u2019 were an offer of assisted suicide.<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cI am 84 years old, and a year ago, an amazing thing happened,\u201d Miriam told Amanda Achtman, the founder of the Dying to Meet You Project. \u201cWhen 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.\u201d \u201cShe called an ambulance,\u201d Miriam said.<em><strong> \u201cOff 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]: \u2018We would like to offer you MAID.\u2019<\/strong><\/em> I was taken aback\u2014that was the last thing on my mind! I just wanted to find out why I was in pain! I did not want to die!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/elderly-canadian-woman-offered-euthanasia-before-doctor-even-asked-what-was-wrong-with-her\/?utm_source=digest-canadian-2026-03-19&amp;utm_medium=email\">https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/elderly-canadian-woman-offered-euthanasia-before-doctor-even-asked-what-was-wrong-with-her\/?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 84-year-old woman said that when a doctor approached her at Vancouver General Hospital last year, \u2018the very first words of out her mouth\u2019 were an offer of assisted suicide. \u201cI am 84 years old, and a year ago, an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=692898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692899,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692898\/revisions\/692899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}