Case reference: MAID-AB-2026-X3Y5 · Alberta · MAID raised by others; not requested · Recorded by the register as a MAID victim
Who she is
She is a 72-year-old Canadian and a Christian whose X profile gives her home as Strathmore, Alberta. She was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer at 68 and had chemotherapy, surgery and radiation.
What happened
On one treatment day she was watching people outside walking their dogs and playing with their grandchildren. “I had a few tears running down my face and a nurse asked me what’s the matter,” she wrote. “The next week on my treatment day I got a folder telling me about maid. And then someone came by later on and asked if I read my folder and I said yes. I did but I’m not interested.” When she asked why anyone thought she would want it, “She replied. We were told that you were feeling a little depressed.”
Why they were pushed toward MAID
A single sad moment during chemotherapy was written up as depression, and depression was treated as a reason to offer death. “A nurse had reported that I had a sad day and I had been crying,” she wrote. She told staff that as a Christian she saw it as suicide. She kept the folder “so I could prove that I received the folder.”
In her own words
“I’m 72 so far. My scans are all clear. I had chemotherapy. I had surgery and I had radiation. I walk 10 km a day with my dog,” she wrote. “I’m enjoying life a life that they thought was best for me to surrender.” And: “This person telling you that it doesn’t happen. It does.”
What this case shows
A cancer patient who was doing well was offered MAID because she cried. She survived, and she still has the folder. Her case shows how ordinary grief during treatment can be recorded as a reason to put death on the table.
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