The pandemic is making it harder to deliver medically assisted death, doctors say
Posted on April 30, 2020
Filed under COVID19, Culture wars
“Some doctors say the pandemic is making it harder to provide medically assisted deaths to patients who request them, due to shortages of protective masks and gowns and last-minute scrambles to find places to perform the procedure…
One patient in Ontario had the procedure performed in a funeral home… The patient was given a room and had their life ended with medical help on the premises, she said. The patient’s funeral arrangements also took place there …”
– Story from the CBC (Canada) via the Anglican Samizdat.