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Hospital staff have repeatedly pushed a Canadian man with disabilities to accept euthanasia. Now, he says, they are repeatedly asking him about suicide while cutting off basic needs like food and water.
“I’m doing my best to hang in, but I truly don’t know how much longer my body can hold on,” patient Roger Foley wrote in a message to The Dallas Express. “I think that there is no hope.”
Patient Roger Foley has spinocerebellar ataxia, a neurological disease that makes movement extremely difficult. Foley requires a medical lift to perform basic tasks like eating, drinking, and taking medication. Since Canada’s universal healthcare system limits his medical options, he has been at the hospital for nine years.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) staff previously withheld food and water and pushed “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) – another term for euthanasia – on Foley, according to The Federalist. He said the hospital stopped asking him about this for several years.
But since the end of April, Foley told The Dallas Express, staff have started bringing up suicide “almost every night.” He also said since he does not consent to bright lighting during treatment – which he says aggravates his neurological symptoms – the hospital again cut off food, water, medicine, and toileting. At the time of publication, Foley said he was on an IV and growing weak.
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