Delta divided over hospice refusal of assisted dying

The anger of LeeAnne Gossard – seen here with her son Jeremy Gossard on Dec. 20, 2019 in Tsawwassen, B.C. – is part of a debate over MAID in Delta, a city of about 100,000 people south of Vancouver.A few months after Clint Gossard was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he told his family he was ready to die and wanted a doctor’s help to do it.

The controversy highlights debate over whether publicly funded facilities – including faith-based facilities that object to medically assisted dying on religious grounds – should be required to provide MAID as a condition of receiving government funds. “It is outrageous that people who are in the very last hours of their life, when they are so frail and so ill that they require minute-to-minute care, are required to transfer,” said Ellen Wiebe, a Vancouver doctor and MAID provider.

Ms. Macey told the Delta Optimist she had been terminated and that she planned to seek legal advice. She did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Globe and Mail.Supporters of Ms. Macey launched a membership drive in which the number of society members surged to more than 600 from fewer than 200. Ms. Macey also had support from local churches, including St. Andrew’s Anglican Church.

"The balance of power was dynamically changed and this meant a pro-life board was now firmly in place,” she wrote in a Jan. 1 op-ed for The Light Magazine, a Christian lifestyle publication.

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The common sense solution would be to immediately cut off their public funding.

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