Quebec woman wins MAID case to die at home after legal fight with landlord – CTV
Sept. 11, 2024
A woman who requested medical assistance in dying (MAID) won a major case in front of the Quebec rental board.
She wanted to die at home, but her landlord didn’t want her to.
Victoria Taylor has ALS, and her health has been rapidly declining with an iPad now her only way to communicate.
In recent days, she has often enjoyed the last little pleasures of her life outside of her apartment in the Laurentians.
“It’s my little paradise,” she said through her friend and neighbour Pascale Beauregard.
Taylor is at peace that she will die at home on Oct. 30.
“I don’t want to die in a CHSLD,” said the 63-year-old, who was diagnosed with ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2022.
The decision to die at home let to a painful confrontation with her landlord, Taylor said, as the landlord wanted to repossess the apartment and didn’t want her to die there.
