West Island Palliative Care Residence won’t obey Quebec’s ‘dying with dignity’ law
CBC News
The director of the West Island Palliative Care Residence says patients seeking assistance with dying will have to go elsewhere.
“We are absolutely one of the 29 [palliative care programs in Quebec] that are opting out of providing this service,” says the residence’s executive director, Theresa Dellar.
“The basic philosophy of palliative care is we do nothing to hasten death, and obviously euthanasia does hasten death. Our philosophy to provide comfort, care and dignity at the end of life and to allow for the natural process of death to take place,” she said. . . . [Full text]