Langara path

In 2011, at this time of year, I was in a conversation with a woman doctor.  Both of us were walking on the pathway surrounding the Langara golf course.  She mentioned that she had just put her mother down by starving her and her family was angry at her and would not talk to her.  She said that starving her mother was painless and in the best interest of her mother.  She also told me that VCHA usually allows patients two years before they decide to end treatment.  It was exactly two years from the time Randy entered GPC that a DNR was placed on him.  And my life of terror began.

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I just came across an article written by Bobby Schindler on June 13, 2008.  It said that in the US denying food and hydration is a widely practiced "medical treatment."  When I attended the Bentley case in BC, a medical professional said the same thing to me. It is done all the time. If patients are being starved to death and it is a widely practiced, how is it that I did not know about it.  Just like the common practise of putting DNRs on patients without their knowledge. 


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 Huntington Post 15 May 2018

As Ontario's large cohort of baby boomers become seniors, the system will come under more strain, the FAO report said. The average 50-year-old in Ontario needs about $3,100 of health-care services annually, while a 65-year-old needs $6,400 worth of care and an 85-year-old needs more than $22,000 in care.

1/3 of all deaths are due to medical error

If 1/3 of all deaths are due to medical error (which is a low estimate), why is it that we trust doctors.

And why is it that the aging population is blamed for our economic woes.  A few decades ago it was the poor who accessed the social safety net who were blamed because they did not want to work. The next diameter to attack is our pets that should not be here as they have no quality of life. And then there is the 2019 case of Hannah Cement v. Ottawa Civil Hospital.  The Hospital got a court order to starve her, a 62-year-old woman to death, as she has dementia. How was that possible.

The PGT and VCHA banning

On 29 January 2014 VCHA banned me for life from accessing all VCHA properties.  The PGT was a signatory to the banning.

A "wanted poster" with my picture was distributed to the employees of VCHA to make sure that employees would attack me on sight. The PGT did an equally stupid thing.

Randy Walker RIP April 13 2014 Sunday

And to think VCHA prevented me from seeing him.  What they did was say to the court that Randy was stable and not dying when in fact they all knew he had organ failure and he was dying.  I still can't believe what cruely they get away with and I am sure it is continuing even now.

What was the point of what Clark Wilson and the PGT did.Where is it said that it was in the best interest of Randy to die alone.

I remember the first social worker I talked to she said for me to forget about Randy and that VCHA would look after him.  I wonder often about that conversation.  If I had walked away, would Randy have lived as long as he did.

As each year passes my PTSD/bereavement is getting worse than better.  I dread waking up each morning.

Joel Morris, partner Harper Grey

Joel Morris, LLB, told a justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia that I did not respect the law. This is not true.

It is up to the supreme court justice to make such a determination. Not Joel.

Joel's job is not to defame me.  His job is to present the facts.

Joel sees himself as a great litigator.  His hero is Joseph Groia.  He horns his skill by attacking a 75 year old woman in bereavement because his client attempted to hasten the death of her husband.  All his client has to do is admit that VCHA forced him to put a premature DNACPR/DNT/CCO on my husband. My husband was 56 years old.

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Joel Morris

I was accused by Joel Morris, law partner of Farris and Company, that I had no respect for the law.  I have a great deal of respect for the law otherwise I would not be suing his client.  His client is being reimbursed for his legal fees by the CMPA. And the Province reimburses his client's CMPA's membership fee.  So Joel's client pays nothing.  All his client does is sign affidavits which Joel writes.

Like I said to your client many times for him to tell the truth and say he was forced by Vancouver Coastal Health to put DNACPR, DNT and CCO Orders  ("DNR") on my husband in an attempt to hasten my husband's death.  He also followed the instructions of VCH to have him declared incapable. Why would your client want to declare my husband incompetent when he was dying.

Although I had a representation agreement for health care for my husband, your client and VCHA ignored it.  And VCHA made an Order approved by your client that I could not see my husband  while he was dying.  His death was not unexpected. Doctors know when a patient will die.

It is you and Farris and Company (from where many judges have been appointed) are using legal technicalities to have my case dismissed.

You are playing by the rules but this is not a chess game.  No one wins.  My husband is dead and I am suffering from PTSD which may never go away.

And VCH keeps puting DNRs on patients justifying that they are going to die anyways.  No issue here unless the patient wants to live for a few more days, weeks, months or years...or a few more hours.

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My computer has gone wonky, the date of this post is March 30, 2019

Consider the case of Ben Mattlin, who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy. In a 2012 column for the New York Times, he wrote of the “thin and porous border between coercion and free choice” for those who feel devalued. On the subtle erosion of his autonomy, he wrote: “You also can’t truly conceive of the many subtle forces (to die) — invariably well meaning, kindhearted, even gentle, yet as persuasive as a tsunami — that emerge when your physical autonomy is hopelessly compromised.”

Randy Walker 7

From the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition blog from a few days ago.

Assisted suicide and euthanasia are at their heart eugenic. They seek to eliminate the weak, sick and elderly among us, while promoting what they call autonomy, which is only valuing individuals who are healthy and productive. They seek to morph Darwin's "Survival of the Fittest" into, only the fittest are allowed to survive. 

March 14 2019 Nancy Elliott

And the doctors are the ones who determine who is the fittest to survive.

In Canada it is called "quality of life" and Randy was one of its victims. Randy was chronic and he could have lived longer.  Absenting me from his life only hastened his death.  Why did VCHA do it?  Someone please ask someone.  I do not know who to ask.  In 2014 I was told that it was a direct order from Dr. David Ostrow, CEO, of VCHA.  Ostrow told me that he did not get involved with day-to-day matters so why did the directive come from him. No intervention.  No nothing.  Like it happens everyday.  Lifton called it "doubling,"

Randy was 57 when he died from an ABI after four years.  The health authority told Dr. Dunne to put a DNACPR/DNT/CCO Order on him which is euthanasia (involuntary).  They were playing with my head at that time as they knew I did not know what they were doing.  All of them looking down on me with their intimate knowledge. Their knowledge of how easy it is to kill and I not knowing what they were doing must have made them feel superior.  Like a con artist stealing from an old woman her life's savings.


Ron Panzer said that in the US Adult Protection Services are called by hospitals falsely accusing family members of being a threat to their own loved one when the family objected to the death-protocols being implemented by hospitals.  After I learned that a DNR meant that Randy would not be admitted to ICU, I objected to any type of DNR Order since DNR Orders are elastic. VCHA and PGT started on a project to take my health representation agreement away so I would have no say in Randy's treatment and further that I would be banned from all VCHA properties so I could not see Randy.  I wonder who devised that puzzle.


In an era of cost control and managed care, patients with lingering illnesses may be branded an economic liability, and decisions to encourage death can be driven by cost.  (W. Dellinger)