Roughly four hours after being released from an involuntary psychiatric hold, 61-year-old Donna Duncan received medical assistance in dying (MAID) at her home in Abbotsford, B.C.
Donna Duncan, a retired psychiatric nurse who had attempted suicide days earlier, had been approved for MAID after two independent assessors determined that her weight loss and frailty made her death reasonably foreseeable.
Her daughter, Alicia Duncan, disputes that assessment, saying her mother was experiencing a psychiatric crisis and needed treatment rather than euthanaisa.
“My mom was not dying. She was in crisis,” Alicia told The Epoch Times. “She had just attempted suicide, yet days later that same wish to die was treated as an autonomous medical decision.”…