This story out of Canada is disgusting, immoral, unethical, enraging, heartbreaking, and, sadly, unsurprising.
Yet another innocent soul has had her life ended unnaturally, prematurely, and, very likely, unwillingly after the death cult operating as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) came for her.
MAID is, of course, the government-sanctioned program that decides when a Canadian life has become disposable, be it due to physical ailments, mental health, or, heck, even homelessness. Arbitrary factors decide when it's time to end a life, then in comes the MAID brigade to make a "physician-assisted suicide" happen.
The story in question here involves an 83-year-old Christian grandmother by the name of Brigitte Stegemann. Her family had made the difficult decision to put her into a care facility after it became challenging to care for her at home. She wasn't in great health, having dealt for years with stomach cancer, and her mental faculties weren't as sharp as they used to be, but Brigitte still had a healthy appetite and had previously rejected MAID as an option.
Things changed in June when Brigitte's granddaughter and primary caretaker, Brigitte Kranendonk, went on a 10-day vacation with her husband. Despite checking in regularly with the care home and being assured everything was okay after her grandmother had taken a fall, Kranendonk returned to find that a nurse had convinced the octogenarian to reconsider MAID.
When confronting the staff about this, Kranendonk recalled, “The nurse became very abrasive, very defensive. She was like, ‘Well, I’m just trying to advocate for her. I’m just trying to do what’s right for her.’”
This is literally suicidal empathy at play, except the nurse wouldn't be the one offing herself.
The granddaughter says one MAID meeting had already been held with her grandmother by the time she had returned from her trip, and a subsequent one showed Stegemann struggled to understand the questions being asked her by a doctor.
“She explains MAID to my grandmother by saying: ‘We’re going to give you medicine, you’re going to feel at peace. And I just want you to know that you won’t have a bowel movement,'” Kranendonk said.
When Kranendonk pointed out to the doctor that her grandmother didn't understand the concept, the doctor apparently looked at Stegemann and said, “We’re going to make sure you won’t have any more pain.”
The grandmother was "deemed fit for MAID," and the medical team decided "we’re going to proceed."
But, two days before her scheduled death, says Kranendonk, her grandmother cried and said she "had made a mistake." The granddaughter was confused about what to do next, and made a decision she's come to regret: avoid more chaos and just enjoy the last few days with her "Oma."
Her family says she had already rejected assisted death. Weeks later, 83-year-old Brigitte Stegemann was killed under Canada’s physician-assisted suicide program.
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Her family says she had already rejected assisted death. Weeks later, 83-year-old Brigitte Stegemann was killed under Canada’s physician-assisted suicide program.
Stegemann’s granddaughter says everything changed while she was away on a 10-day trip. During that time, the care home arranged a MAiD assessment, and the family alleges Stegemann was showing cognitive decline and became distraught when told the procedure would end her life.
Now the family wants to know how the Christian grandmother was approved for an assisted death despite those concerns.
The procedure itself was bungled.
During the procedure, Kranendonk said the nurse who was administering the IV was not wearing gloves and had a hard time putting it into her right arm, piercing her grandmother many times, which resulted in “blood all over the place.”
The doctor then came and told Stegemann she was there to give her “medicine,” which she did not respond to.
“My Oma is not moving,” Kranendonk said. “She doesn’t open her eyes. She doesn’t nod. She doesn’t say anything, and the doctor just said: ‘Okay, well, I’m going to proceed.’”
Kranendonk said her grandmother was dead within 10 minutes.
Kranendonk now says she wishes she had sought an injunction preventing MAID from being carried out on her grandmother, but claims she didn't know it was an option. She has asked the Chief Coroner’s Office in Ontario, the Patient Ombudsman, and the Belleville Police to investigate if what happened was legal.
There is another question worth asking, too. Even if it was, what kind of civilized society decided it should be? Once death becomes an accepted form of “treatment,” the vulnerable stop being people to protect and start becoming problems to solve.
