So she can CHOOSE to kill herself, but she can’t CHOOSE to be around family.
CTV News Canada in Canada reports on this heartbreaking story of a 90-year-old woman who choose death even though she was not chronically ill or dying:
“When 90-year-old Nancy Russell died last month, she was surrounded by friends and family. They clustered around her bed, singing a song she had chosen to send her off, as a doctor helped her through a medically-assisted death. It was the exact opposite of the lonely months of lockdown Russell had suffered through in the retirement home where Russell had lived for several years -- that was the whole point…
…these lockdowns are taking another toll among those who don’t get COVID-19. Residents eat meals in their rooms, have activities and social gatherings cancelled, family visits curtailed or eliminated. Sometimes they are in isolation in their small rooms for days. These measures, aimed at saving lives, can sometimes be detrimental enough to the overall health of residents that they find themselves looking into other options.
Russell, described by her family as exceptionally social and spry, was one such person. Her family says she chose a medically-assisted death (MAID) after she declined so sharply during lockdown that she didn’t want to go through more isolation this winter. “
Researchers say they have seen rising rates of loneliness and despondence among residents in in senior homes during these COVID-19 lockdowns.
Dr. Samir Sinha, a geriatric specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital says:
“When you stick someone alone and deprive them of the usual things that bring them interest in joy, that can be an incredibly isolating, lonely, depressing experience. And frankly, when you can't look forward to getting out of your room, to having meals or doing activities with others, to even seeing your own families and loved ones, you can imagine for a person in the last few years of their life where these are the basic things that actually bring them joy and really defined what they would call their own quality of life, when you actually deprive a human being of these things, you can imagine that that can have significant psychological consequences that can really give people no real will to live anymore.”
Absolutely sickening to hear how the elderly are being treated in the name of the “greater good”.