Editor:
Delta Hospice was an amazing place during the final days of my aunt's life.
She was dying of cancer and was transferred from the Delta Hospital to the hospice. We were welcomed by the staff, so gracious and thoughtful. On the first day she was made comfortable, had a nice meal and then they told me they would start to give her hydromorphone.
By the next day, she was in a coma and completely out of it for five days while they increased the hydromorphone daily. She didn't drink or eat, virtually starving to death, then she slipped away peacefully. Isn't that assisted dying?
Marion Janssen
