{"id":81812,"date":"2026-03-29T10:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81812"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:28:45","slug":"woman-with-back-pain-offered-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/woman-with-back-pain-offered-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman With Back Pain Offered Euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p>Miriam Lancaster visited an emergency room in Vancouver in April 2025 Canada after waking up with serious back pain, according\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandard.news\/news\/vancouver-woman-offered-maid-before-receiving-any-treatment-at-hospital\/72095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to the Western Standard<\/a>. \u201cOff I went to the Vancouver General Hospital and I was approached by a young lady doctor whose very first words out of her mouth were, \u2018We would like to offer you MAiD,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AmandaAchtman\/status\/2034340063795106229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2034340063795106229%7Ctwgr%5E1b8bd2ece2e9b50a1a007f02ba6a5b5a905c2a95%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westernstandard.news%2Fnews%2Fvancouver-woman-offered-maid-before-receiving-any-treatment-at-hospital%2F72095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miriam said in a March 18 video posted to X<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cI was taken aback. That was the last thing on my mind. I just wanted to find out why I was in pain \u2014\u00a0I did not want to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MAiD program in Canada allows eligible adults with a serious, irremediable medical conditions and intolerable, irreversible suffering to receive assistance from a doctor or nurse practitioner in ending their life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774780125\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Woman With Back Pain Offered Euthanasia\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post\u00a0[caution tabloid]: Miriam Lancaster visited an emergency room in Vancouver in April 2025 Canada after waking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}