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(DIR) Post #B2aathqqDAv2JmsGzA by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2026-01-23T21:36:40.184004Z
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/wife-euthanised-against-her-will-after-husband-became-burnt-out-looking-after-her/ar-AA1UQ6ZF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6973e8f3cc2d46188406716bd1fa03e5&ei=12A woman was euthanised 'against her will' the day after saying she no longer wanted to go through with assisted dying after her husband became 'burnt out' by caring for her. Referred to only as 'Mrs B', the Canadian woman, in her 80s, had undergone a coronary artery bypass graft surgery and experienced several complications after, including respiratory failure which left her needing specialist care in hospital and further surgery. As her health started to deteriorate, Mrs B chose to stop any further treatment and instead receive palliative care. Support was arranged for her and her family and she was sent home where her husband cared for her. She then is said to have told her family she wanted Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Even with the help of a palliative care team, involving nurses, Mrs B's husband is said to have struggled with the amount of care she required. The report explained Mrs B then "reportedly expressed her desire for MAiD to her family", and so "on the same day, her spouse contacted a referral service on her behalf." The next day, she met with a MAiD practitioner who assessed her eligibility, but according to the report "she reportedly told the MAiD assessor that she wanted to withdraw her request, citing personal and religious values and beliefs". She told the assessor that "pursuing in-patient palliative care/hospice care and palliative sedation was more in-keeping with her end-of-life goals." The next day, Mrs B was rushed to the emergency department of her local hospital where she was found to be stable, but "her spouse was noted to be experiencing caregiver burnout". Her palliative care doctor put in a referral for in-patient palliative care or hospice care due to her husband's burnout but the request was denied "for not meeting hospice criteria for end-of-life".The same day, her husband asked for a second urgent assessment for MAiD and later that day a different assessor carried out an assessment and found Mrs B eligible for MAiD. The original assessor was contacted, and objected to the latest decision, raising concerns. According to the report: "This MAiD practitioner expressed concerns regarding the necessity for 'urgency' and shared belief for the need for more comprehensive evaluation, the seemingly drastic change in perspective of end-of-life goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e due to caregiver burnout." The original practitioner asked to visit Mrs B the next day to reassess, but their request was declined by the MAiD provider "due to their clinical opinion that the clinical circumstances necessitated an urgent provision". Instead, a third assessor was brought in to complete a "virtual assessment" and they agreed with the second assessor that Mrs B was eligible for MAiD. Mrs B was euthanised later that evening. Members of Ontario's MAiD Death Review Committee raised concerns in the report about how Mrs B's case was handled, as many members "believed the short timeline did not allow all aspects of Mrs B's social and end-of-life circumstances and care needs to be explored."According to the report: "Most members were concerned that there was no clinical indication for the MAiD assessments and provision to occur within the same day, with identifiable complex circumstances that may have benefitted from the opportunity to explore and navigate". The areas that needed to be assessed further included: "The impact of being denied hospice care, additional care options, caregiver burden, consistency of the MAiD request, and divergent MAiD practitioner perspectives." The husband's burnout was also discussed by members, with many bringing forward "concerns of possible external coercion arising from the caregiver's experience of burnout and lack of access to palliative care in an in-patient or hospice setting". According to the report: "Members noted that Mrs B's spouse was primary in advocating and navigating access to MAiD with limited documentation of the process being self-directed."They also noted that "MAiD assessments were completed with the spouse present", which could have meant the woman felt pressured to go along with it. Some members questioned whether family members should be allowed to refer a person for MAiD assessment, highlighting the concern that "a referral from a family member for MAiD presents risk that the request was not self-directed and introduces issues such as external pressure." Members of the review board also said Mrs B's "apparent abrupt change in her request or decision to access MAiD should have been discussed, understood, and documented."
(DIR) Post #B2acF6NCKoj0PHm7CC by virvallis@spinster.xyz
2026-01-23T21:42:25.127451Z
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@HebrideanHecate OMG. đ We knew this would happen. Fucking virtual visit. An iPad on a cart determines you die.
(DIR) Post #B2acF7b3mlPKCZGhRQ by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2026-01-23T21:43:12.691258Z
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@virvallis They are just all for killing off the inconvenient.
(DIR) Post #B2acF8WULFLR4g8YxE by sim@shitposter.world
2026-01-23T21:55:21.048164Z
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@HebrideanHecate @virvallis It is tragic. She should not be able to be put through MAID if she is not eligible for palliative care. Palliative care and other hospice options should be explored and enacted first.Hard to know about referrals from family members. Regardless, her expressed wishes should have been respected after that first assessment. They murdered her. It is clear that she did not want this.
(DIR) Post #B2acjsUbzYM6KnuyeG by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2026-01-23T21:52:21.831377Z
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@virvallis https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/patients-will-choose-assisted-suicide-to-protect-nhs/ar-AA1UPWBA?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6973ed1ab8db4cf985ec529631219ef1&ei=9The former head of the NHS has said its patients could choose assisted dying to âprotect the NHSâ and not burden the service. Lord Stevens of Birmingham, who served as the chief executive of NHS England for seven years, warned it was âdangerousâ for the NHS to run an assisted dying service. He made the intervention as the House of Lords began debating the bill. Lord Stevens told peers: âPart of the reason why I think it would be dangerous to include assisted dying in the National Health Service is because it risks undermining the very trust that people have in their clinicians. It increases the risk of what you might call self-coercion in the name of altruism.â He added: âWe saw that, frankly, during Covid, when the slogan âProtect the NHSâ was used. A number of us were opposed to that, fearing that it would put people off coming forward for needed care. That is precisely what happened.âThe idea that an NHS-branded assisted dying service might therefore, in peopleâs minds, at least, come to be associated with helping protect the NHS by virtue of choosing an earlier death, seems to me a blurring of the lines that we should be careful to avoid.â Stephen Kinnock, the care minister, admitted last year that assisted dying services would probably be funded by the NHS. He said that it would be administered through an âNHS commissioning processâ, but did not indicate whether the NHS would itself be providing the service or buying it from other providers. The legislation is in the form of a private membersâ bill, and not one from the Government, which has declared it is neutral on the issue.
(DIR) Post #B2acjtMUlDSP1v80dU by virvallis@spinster.xyz
2026-01-23T21:57:11.529663Z
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@HebrideanHecate Put more emphasis and funding on palliative and hospice care. Hospice will ease any pain with morphine towards your end days. I feel terribly for elderly with no family advocates. Then again, there are sadly many families that also donât want to deal with it. They gladly take any remaining inheritance though!
(DIR) Post #B2acju8LtHjpQLWEEK by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2026-01-23T21:58:36.125720Z
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@virvallis They have come right out and said they will defund palliative, if there is no choice offered there can be no choice.
(DIR) Post #B2ad4LKuShc1aC8eCu by sim@shitposter.world
2026-01-23T22:04:38.143232Z
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@virvallis @HebrideanHecate I don't understand it. Those final weeks, days... those are the most precious. The last chance to come together as a family and show your love and care towards them. It stays with you.