Alberta nurse told author Heather Hancock she was ‘selfish’ for not getting MAiD

David Krayden

“You’re being selfish. You’re not living, you’re merely existing.”

Heather Hancock is a successful Christian author who campaigns for life and against censorship. She was also told by a nurse to consider government-assisted suicide.

She has battled cerebral palsy since she was a young child and it was that condition that prompted a nurse in a Medicine Hat, Alberta hospital to tell her that Hancock should stop being “selfish” and think about accessing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), the euthanasia program that has made Canada the suicide capital of the world.

The nurse was helping Hancock access the bathroom while receiving treatment for muscle spams at the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital.

“You should do the right thing and consider MAiD,” said the nurse, according to a report in the Daily Mail. “You’re being selfish. You’re not living, you’re merely existing,” the nurse continued.

Hancock, 56, told the Mail that those words left her “gobsmacked” but that she didn’t flinch from telling the nurse that no, she wasn’t merely existing and her life was worth living.

She responded to the nurse by saying, “You have no right to push me to accept MAiD,” Hancock told the Mail. Hancock did register an official complaint about the treatment she received at the hospital even though she has been told to consider MAiD on three separate occasions while under the supervision and “care” of Canadian healthcare staff.