April 7, 2026

The doctor ‘came in and said, “Miriam, I understand you’re in a lot of pain. We can offer you MAID.” Just like that,’ the woman’s daughter said

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When she was taken by ambulance to a Vancouver hospital with lower back pain the likes of which she’d never experienced, the last thing 84-year-old Miriam Lancaster said she was thinking of was “cashing my chips.”

 

An 84-year-old woman rushed by ambulance to a Vancouver hospital for unbearable lower back pain was stunned when, according to her daughter, a doctor walked in and offered MAID: “Miriam, I understand you’re in a lot of pain. We can offer you MAID.” The exchange, the family says, left them shaken as a deeply vulnerable patient confronted a life-and-death option at the very moment she was seeking relief, not an exit.

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