The O’Neills were furious, demanding Health Minister Adrian Dix force St Paul’s to change its religious-based policy that forbids MAID, which is a legal medical procedure, from happening at the publicly funded hospital. She didn’t abide by their beliefs, and they said, 'Get the hell out of my hospital.'” “What they did with Sam when they took her over to the hospice and put her in that storage room, as far as I’m concerned they put her into a hall of shame. They took away any last words she could have said to us, to her friends and family, there was a lot of us there,” said O’Neill’s mother Gaye. “They took away any last words we could have said to her. She didn’t wake up to say goodbye to her family before undergoing MAID at a Vancouver hospice. O’Neill had to be sedated and transferred out of palliative care at St Paul’s Hospital in the final hours of her life. That’s what happened to 34-year-old Sam O’Neill, a terminal cancer patient who had chosen MAID in April. ![]() The provincial government is constructing a new clinical space adjacent to St Paul's Hospital so palliative care patients who choose to undergo medical assistance in dying or MAID don’t have to be loaded into transfer vans or ambulances and driven elsewhere to get the end-of-life procedure.
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