{"id":223894,"date":"2026-02-05T17:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=223894"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:23:08","slug":"canadian-woman-begged-doctors-please-dont-kill-me-hours-before-being-euthanized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/canadian-woman-begged-doctors-please-dont-kill-me-hours-before-being-euthanized\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Woman Begged Doctors \u201cPlease Don\u2019t Kill Me\u201d Hours Before Being Euthanized"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Canadian woman who begged doctors not to kill her was euthanized against her will in January, according to reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn elderly woman was euthanized within hours of her husband claiming she changed her mind after insisting she wanted to live<\/em>,\u201d wrote U.S. senior investigations reporter Nic White. In Canada, patients can receive \u201cexpress same-day euthanasia<\/em><\/a>\u201d on request, as long as they are approved by a \u201cMAiD assessor<\/em>\u201d so long as the euthanasia practitioner deems the case urgent.<\/p>\n

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A report<\/a> by the Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee, which was previously reported on here<\/a>, revealed a number of horrifying cases that constituted \u201cquestionable deaths<\/em>\u201d (virtually all of the terminology surrounding so-called \u201cmedical assistance in dying<\/em>\u201d is profoundly Orwellian).<\/p>\n

\u201cOne case study was that of a woman in her 80s referred to as \u2018Mrs B\u2019 who had complications after a coronary artery bypass graft surgery<\/em>,\u201d wrote White. \u201cShe went into severe decline and opted for palliative care, and was sent home from hospital with palliative support and her husband caring for her. But as her condition got worse, her elderly husband struggled to care for her even with the help of visits by nurses<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the family, Mrs. B said she wanted euthanasia. Her overworked husband contacted a \u201creferral service<\/em>\u201d immediately. Mrs. B, however, reconsidered her choice when the assessor arrived, stating that she \u201cwanted to withdraw her request, citing personal religious values and beliefs<\/em>.\u201d She said that she wanted inpatient hospice care instead.<\/p>\n

As is so often the case, in-patient hospice care was unavailable and the family\u2019s request was denied the following day. Her husband \u201cwas experiencing caregiver burnout<\/em>,\u201d and despite his wife being assessed as stable by physicians, requested an \u201curgent second MAiD assessment<\/em>\u201d that same day. The new assessor stated that she was eligible for euthanasia, even though the original assessor, when contacted \u201cas per protocol<\/em>,\u201d disagreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis MAiD practitioner expressed concerns regarding the necessity for \u2018urgency\u2019 and shared belief for the need for more comprehensive evaluation, the seemingly drastic modification in perspective of end-of-life goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e., due to caregiver burnout)<\/em>,\u201d the report stated. The assessor asked to meet Mrs. B the following day, but this \u201cwas declined by the MAiD provider as \u2018the clinical circumstances necessitated an urgent provision\u2019<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In short: the euthanasia practitioner rejected delaying killing the woman even by a day, claiming, despite doctors assessing the woman as stable, that it was an \u201curgent<\/em>\u201d situation.<\/p>\n

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A third assessor was called in and signed off on the second assessor\u2019s eligibility finding. The woman was killed that same evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cOntario MAiD Death Review Committee members raised concerns about how Mrs B\u2019s case was handled, in the report released by the Office of the Chief Coroner<\/em>,\u201d White reported. \u201cMany members \u2018believed the short timeline did not allow all aspects of Mrs B\u2019s social and end-of-life circumstances and care needs to be explored\u2019.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese included \u2018the impact of being denied hospice care, additional care options, caregiver burden, consistency of the MAiD request, and divergent MAiD practitioner perspectives.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Many members brought forward concerns of possible external coercion arising from the caregiver\u2019s experience of burnout and lack of access to palliative care in an in-patient or hospice setting,\u2019 the report noted.<\/em><\/p>\n

Members were also concerned that Mrs B\u2019s spouse was the main person advocating and navigating access to MAiD, and there was little documentation that she actually asked for it herself. The MAiD assessments were completed with her husband present, which raised additional concerns that she felt pressured to go along with it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coercion is an increasing reality in Canada\u2019s euthanasia regime; recently, a judge had to intervene<\/a> to prevent a husband from carrying out a \u201cdouble-euthanasia<\/em>\u201d death plan for his wife, who had been deemed non-eligible for euthanasia due to her dimension. The husband had planned to kill his wife himself in a \u2018do-it-yourself\u2019 euthanasia and then end his own life. A judge removed the woman from her husband\u2019s guardianship, but critics pointed out that even the judge treated the situation not as a murder plan but as a violation of MAiD protocol.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Euthanized against her will\u2019 = cold blooded murder<\/em>,\u201d wrote<\/a> former Alberta premier Jason Kenney in response to the news. \u201cThis is the inevitable result of Canada\u2019s dystopian \u2018medical assistance in dying\u2019 regime. When I predicted this outcome over years of debates in Parliament, pro-euthanasia advocates would dismiss it as \u2018fear mongering.\u2019 It turns out that fear of desacralizing human life is entirely rational<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if those who approved the woman\u2019s killing \u2013 and the physician who carried it out \u2013 will face any criminal consequences.<\/p>\n

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yogaesoteric
\nFebruary 5, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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