Really! Intolerable pain isn't the only reason for euthanasia; not even close..

"Almost all patients are in hospice, and almost all take the medications at home after telling loved ones of their decision," said Dr Blanke, who provided an update on Oregon's experience here at the Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium (PCOS) 2016.

It is relatively rare for patients to use DWD because they were suffering from inadequate pain palliation, he explained. The most common reasons were related to quality of life, autonomy, and dignity."

Because of a few, they have put us at all at risk.  One does not have to die in pain unless one choses to.  

Health Care Representation Agreement

This from the Health Professions Review Board:

2016-HPA-024(a); 2016-HPA-025(a); 2016-HPA-026(a); 2016-HPA-027(a) re: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia(Group File No. 2016-HPA-G03)
Stage 1 hearing of an application for review of an Inquiry Committee disposition under s.50.6 HPA - Inquiry Committee disposition confirmed. The complaint to the College alleged that four Registrants ignored the Complainant’s designated health care representation agreement concerning his mother and that she was over-medicated with narcotics without proper consent. The mother subsequently passed away from numerous untreatable medical conditions. The original complaint concerned the actions of Registrant 1 and after the mother passed away was expanded to include the actions of three additional Registrants. The Inquiry Committee conducted a thorough investigation that provided key information. The investigation revealed the mother was experiencing significant severe pain on a constant basis and that treating health care staff were very distressed by her continued painful condition and the Complainant’s restriction on the use of pain analgesics through his enforcement of the health care representation agreement. Concerned that they were not acting in the mother’s best interests, on behalf of the mother, Registrant 1 removed the Complainant from the medical decision making role and began prescribing analgesics to alleviate her pain. In a disposition that is detailed, transparent, intelligible and justified the Inquiry Committee had no criticism of the Registrants’ actions. The investigation was deemed thorough and adequate. The disposition is detailed, transparent, intelligible and defensible with respect to the law and facts.
June 6, 2016 (Posted July 4, 2016)

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copy to Andrew Macfarlane, VCH. I have been asking you why I was stripped of my representation agreement and power of attorney and you have arrogantly refused to tell me.  Am I to assume from your decision that you can do this without due process. What was your legal justification.  In Randy's Representation Agreement he said that he did not want a DNR and yet VGH put a DNR on him.

According to the following, you are going to have to do some serious explaining.  From this HPA- 024 it would suggest that a representation agreement (the voice of the patient) can be overruled by a possee of doctors after the fact.  One of the reasons for refusal of drugs is that some patients do not want to take drugs as drugs dull their senses.

In Carter on page 66

[212] The Court concluded that provisions of the Ontario Mental Health Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 262, granting a physician the authority to override the competent wishes of a patient where deemed to be in the patient's best interests, unjustifiably infringed the security of the person guarantee in s. 7 of the Charter. 

How was the complainant removed from the decision-making process in HPA-024.  By an invisible wave of the hand!

It is not what is in the best interest of the patient, it is what the patient wants.

What is the purpose of a representation agreement when doctors can overrule it at any time.   And it now seems that the BC high medical tribunal can also overrule the Charter. I think not.

On the flip side of this no mention was made whether or not the mother was competent to make medical decisions.  From what I understand, you can be incompetent to make financial decisions but you can still make medical decisions that can hasten your death. Am I mistaken in this belief.

In Carter on page 66

[212] The Court concluded that provisions of the Ontario Mental Health Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 262, granting a physician the authority to override the competent wishes of a patient were deemed to be in the patient's best interests, unjustifiably infringed the security of the person guarantee in s. 7 of the Charter. 

A first: A child comits euthanasia in Belgium.

Dr. Distelmans confirmed today that the first case of a child euthanasia has taken place in Belgium. Little is known as the case was held outside the public eye. What is known is that the child had a terminal disease and personally requested the euthanasia. It has not been made public what age the child was. The dossier is in Dutch which would indicate that it happened in one of the hospitals in the flemish speaking part of Belgium.

The news release can be found here: http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20160916_02472929

Why don't we go back to a simpler time and legislate again that suicide is a criminal act.
 

Power of Attorney leads to perfect crimes

This is what is happening to the estate of my aunt.  My cousin who feels he has entitlement told me that he was selling my aunt's house out from under her.  This house was willed to her church.  My aunt will be 101 in December 2016. She lives in Vernon and has for 75 years. Ever since he took a real interest in her after he retired, he convinced her that she belonged in a nursing home.  He also convinced her doctor. Doctors do not look for potential financial abuse.  Allan told him he couldn't look after my aunt so she had to go to a nursing home. And there was no competent family. A lie.  He never consulted with anyone.  Besides her family was her church, not him.

When last I visited at her home she was mobile and was even preparing her own meals. She said that she wished Allan would just go to Chilliwack and be with his love interest. Even now although she is in a nursing home, she still is going out to the mall every Monday. I subsequentially found out she is in an assisted living facility so he lied again. She did not need nursing care.  She reads her WT religiously and attends religious meetings. When she lived in her home she had help, some paid, and other help from her church.  Allan even told her that she is not to phone me.  He won't even give me his Chilliwack address, his phone number, or his email address. After she is dead (a year later) he might let me knopw. Two years ago when I visited my aunt, her home was redecorated.  I asked her if she was selling her home and she said no. You do not redecorate unless you want to sell.  Allan wanted to refresh it, she said.  I could sense that she did not like the dark colours.  I asked her if she ever wanted to live in a nursing home.  She said no.  Randy had just died and I told my estranged brother to look into it.

My cousin told me on 4 July 2016 that he was selling her home and therefore I had no where to stay if I went to Vernon to visit.  He also had no place to stay which meant that he was abandoning her.  Later that evening I told my aunt did she know that Allan was selling her home.  She said no.  She said the home was to go to her church society after her death. He husband's orders. She also said that she did not know what a Power of Attorney was but she remembered signing it.  Why didn't her lawyer explain to her what it meant. My aunt trusted her lawyer. If Allan sold the property, then according to her will, there would be no house to be sold and her wishes would have been disrespected.  The $proceeds would go into a rabbit hole never to be seen again.

Prior to my cousin telling me he was selling my aunt's home, I offered to move to Vernon to live with her.  And he refused and the social worker in attendance would did not say anything. She only deferred in her ignorance to Allan and the fact that he had a power of attorney.  My aunt was  not incompetent so the power of attorney meant nothing.  It was up to the social worker to intervene and find what was in the best interest of my aunt and also what my aunt wanted.

When I would visit my aunt, so I wasn't an inconvenience, I brought my own sleeping bag and food.  And Helen reimbursed Allan for everything he took from her.  His trips back and forth to Chilliwack and Vernon, his accommodation, his food, he even had a dedicated Internet connection.  He never paid any attention to my aunt, he was busy on social media. When he visited, he only came out of his rabbit hole to be critical of our dysfunctional family. Be critical of her church.  Helen's church friends were intimidated by him including her paid staff.  I still would like to know what happened to my aunt's 50-year old car that was in mint condition closeted in her garage. There is some serious mischief going on.

And yes, Allan had insider information as to how to rip off old people.  He used to work prior to his retirement in a nursing home for 16 years.

In the post below they are talking about millions of dollars.  My aunt only had a modest home and modest pensions.  I do not have the $resources to pursue any legal avenues. A perfect crime. And the good niece is vilified and further denied information and access to her aunt.

 http://www.advisor.ca/tax/estate-planning/watch-for-elder-abuse-173323/2 

Was all this to keep me from speaking ..

I keep thinking about what happened with VCH and me.  I was naive and thought at my old age that we had freedom of speech.  Randy always said that I was stupid.  I am now convinced I was.  When he had a passey muir speaking valve inserted, the first word he said to me was "stupid."  And it is true.

I know of no other reason for this vendetta.  And it is still continuing... and the "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" will no longer be heard. That is a perfect description of how the health authorities manage not only in British Columbia but for every health authorities in Canada.  There used to be small health authorities but for economies of scale they became huge health authorities with huge budgets so they can do whatever they want. They became a shadow government with their own laws and regulations.  Doctors are afraid of them.  Lawyers are afraid of them.  The police are afraid of them. Our governments are even afraid of them. And they made me a basket case.

Forget globalization, I think we should go back to City states.

I am not suffering from depression.  I am suffering from oppression.

Medical Error - the third leading cause of death in the US

The Legal Examiner posted an article by Wayne Parsons September 7 2016 that reported the third leading cause of death in the US is medical error.  So can we assume that one-third of all euthanasia deaths will also be medical errors.

Ro Ang

I keep thinking of how cruel she was towards me after Randy died.  She would not even give me one of Randy's articles so I could bury it with him.  She also  prevented me from attending his memorial service.  But then maybe it was VGH's lawyers who told her to do this.  Like watching Triumph's lawyer tell the world on international tv that he would not allow Trumph to show his tax returns.  A man who is running to be President of the USA being told by a lawyer what to do... I think not.