When she was taken by ambulance to a Vancouver hospital with lower back pain the likes of which she’d never experienced, the last thing 84-year-old Miriam Lancaster said she was thinking of was “cashing my chips.”
Lancaster had a fractured sacrum, a break in a bone at the base of the spine that’s connected to the pelvis. She and her daughter, Jordan Weaver, allege that, while still in the emergency department, a young doctor at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) raised the option of a medically assisted death.
The doctor ‘came in and said, “Miriam, I understand you’re in a lot of pain. We can offer you MAID.” Just like that,’ the woman’s daughter said.