Police in Abbotsford, B.C., are investigating the medically assisted death of a woman whose daughters are raising questions as to why the procedure was approved when their mother’s mental health wasn’t in an adequate state to make that kind of decision.
Donna Duncan, a long-time psychiatric nurse, died on Oct. 29, 2021, after she was approved for medical assistance in dying (MAID). She was 61 years old and had no terminal illness, reported CTV News on April 26.
Duncan was in a car accident on Feb. 25, 2020, and was diagnosed with concussion. She soon became depressed, was in constant pain, and experienced weight loss, and tests she underwent were unable to identify the cause. Her problems were exacerbated when COVID-19 restrictions were imposed in March 2020, leading to the decline of her mental health when she had to stay at home, curtailing her treatments “for months and months,” according to her daughters.
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