An Alberta man wanted MAID. Instead, he died in a Catholic hospital, waiting to be transferred – CBC

349 Canadians who wanted MAID had to transfer due to a facility’s policy in 2024: Health Canada data

Feb 23, 2026

It’s September, and Stacey Hume is next to her dad’s hospital bed in the palliative ward of Edmonton’s Grey Nuns Community Hospital. She, along with her mom and sister, are told by staff that they need to make a choice about her dad.

Either contend with him possibly dying at a red light, alone in the ambulance, or remain in the hospital, where “it could be three, four or five more days of him hanging on like this,” recalled Hume.

Her dad, William Hume, was dying. He had been diagnosed with late-stage gastroesophageal cancer just a few months earlier. William wanted MAID, and was assessed and approved soon after he was diagnosed.

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