Canadians Forced into ‘Choosing’ Euthanasia After Being Denied Treatments
An example:
He died earlier this month of natural causes, but only after being approved for the government’s “assisted suicide” scheme.
His family says the approval came directly after an appalling hospital experience that left him convinced death was preferable to returning to the facility.
Gratton suffered from heart disease and kidney failure.
But instead of receiving dignified care during a recent hospital stay, the CBC reports he spent a night in an emergency room, only to be transferred to a hallway on the seventh floor.
The taxpayer-funded doctors refused to give him the care he needed and convinced him that euthanasia would better serve the greater good.
“There were no lights; all the bulbs in that hallway had been completely removed,” his daughter Lynn said.
“Patients are passing by, nurses are going by, no privacy, no compassion, no dignity.”
She added that nurses had to use headlamps just to examine his feet.
