{"id":303874,"date":"2023-12-22T06:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T12:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=303874"},"modified":"2023-12-22T00:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T06:29:53","slug":"woman-assisted-death-canada-wait-time-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-assisted-death-canada-wait-time-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman chooses assisted death because Canada’s treatment wait time was ‘weeks to months’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Canadian woman chose to end her own life through the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) because she was unable to receive her cancer treatments in a timely manner. The situation underscores the ease with which many Canadian citizens can access assisted death in contrast to the difficulties in receiving standard medical care.<\/p>\n

According to CHEK News<\/a>, 67-year-old Samia Saikali was diagnosed with incurable stomach cancer in March. Doctors told her that if she did nothing, her life expectancy was three to six months; if she chose chemotherapy, they expected her to live at least a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said I\u2019ll do what I can, like, I will do treatment and fight for as long and hold on for as long as I can,\u201d explained Saikali’s daughter, Danielle Baker. \u201cI want to have the summer, at least, with you girls. We had so many plans. But she started to go downhill so quickly with the gastric cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n