A B.C. woman turned to MAID for peace. Her family says her death was undignified, traumatic [Video]

The family and doctor of a Vancouver woman are suing Providence Health Care and the B.C. government over the health authority’s policy against medically-assisted dying in some of its facilities.

Gaye and Jim O’Neill’s daughter, Sam, was diagnosed with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“In a perfect world, she wouldn’t have gotten sick,” Gaye told Global News.

“In a perfect world, she wouldn’t have gotten cancer during COVID, and she would have had a doctor, and the doctors wouldn’t have messed up her pap test, and they wouldn’t have messed up, like, so many things, and she would have had the attention she needed.

“But the world’s not perfect.”

Sam fought until the very end, but cancer ravaged her body.

The 34-year-old chose to say goodbye on her terms and spend her precious final moments surrounded by her family.

“She wanted to live but she was told, ‘You’re terminal, there’s nothing more that we can do for you,’” …