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Let Delta Hospice to do what it was incorporated to do

Editor: Re: MAiD not part of society’s constitution, letter to the editor, Feb. 6 Kudos to Nancy Macey for answering this paper’s question: “Who Owns Delta Hospice?” Macey raised a vital issue on policy vs. law.

Editor:

Re: MAiD not part of society’s constitution, letter to the editor, Feb. 6

Kudos to Nancy Macey for answering this paper’s question: “Who Owns Delta Hospice?” Macey raised a vital issue on policy vs. law. Why is Fraser Health so insistent on putting this legally incorporated B.C. society into the position of going against its own constitution?

The federal government website on MAID, in addition to setting out the criteria on eligibility for it, states the following: “The federal legislation does not force any person to provide or help to provide medical assistance in dying” and “Medical assistance in dying can be provided in a hospital or in a patient’s home.” Many have chosen the latter, according to the website.

Surely it is time to bring this divisive issue to an end by allowing Delta Hospice to do what it was incorporated to do as a society and that is to provide palliative care in its wonderful facility to those nearing death.      

Jean Wightman