Alberta woman’s medically assisted death delayed last minute by B.C. judge – CBC

The woman was scheduled for an assisted death in Vancouver on Oct. 27 at 8 p.m.

Oct 30, 2024

An Alberta woman was denied a medically assisted death in Vancouver this past Sunday after an interim injunction was granted in B.C. Supreme Court barely 24 hours before she was scheduled to die.

According to court documents, the woman was approved for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in July by Vancouver MAiD provider Dr. Ellen Wiebe after her own doctors in southern Alberta wouldn’t approve it.

Wiebe was scheduled to conduct the death at 8 p.m. on Oct. 27 at the Willow Reproductive Health Centre.

The injunction application and civil claim were filed by the woman’s common-law spouse. Both names have been ordered anonymized by the court.

In the documents, the husband argues that his wife’s condition — akathisia — does not qualify her for assisted death.

He also claims that the MAiD process was flawed and that his wife has mental health problems that “underpin her wish to apply for MAiD.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/maid-death-delayed-1.7368473

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