A shocking case of life and death has emerged in Canada where an 83-year-old Christian grandmother was euthanized against her will.
The case involves Brigitte Stegemann, known to her family as “GG” or “Oma,” who had been diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer in February.
Her granddaughter who shares the same first name, Brigitte Kranendonk, says she had to inform Stegemann of the bad news, according to the Daily Mail.
“I used very frank terms. I said: ‘Do you know that you’re going to die on Friday?'”
Her grandmother was in visible disbelief and began crying for 45 minutes.
“She was bawling. Inconsolable,” Kranendonk recounted.
The Daily Mail reports:
In a cognitive test, designed to ascertain whether she was sound of mind enough to consent to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Stegemann “got every question wrong,” believing her two living siblings to be dead, according to Kranendonk.
Yet 48 hours after she wept uncontrollably at the notion of MAiD, Stegemann is said to have died with her hands clasped in prayer, covered in her own blood due to a botched first attempt at connecting the IV, administered by a nurse allegedly not wearing gloves.
Kranendonk is currently in the process of desperately appealing to the Chief Coroner’s Office in Ontario, as well as the Patient Ombudsman and Belleville Police, in a bid to ascertain whether what happened the morning of July 10 at The Pearl care home in Cannifton was legal.
Bereaved and distraught, she claims MAiD practitioners took advantage of her grandmother’s vulnerability to perform the procedure, which she alleges was carried out without express consent.
“She was a vulnerable human being, and they saw an opportunity,” Kranendonk says, her rage and sadness visible.
She suspects the MAiD practitioners were inappropriately ideologically motivated, and believes the chain of events leading up to the procedure should be investigated.
It is understood that the practitioners and care home, who have not commented publicly, maintain that Stegemann had legally consented to proceed.
Kranendonk detailed the gruesome final moments, saying: “There was a phenomenal amount of blood,” recalling how the nurse could not find the proper vein in her right arm to insert the IV, then switching to the left after having “poked her about three or four times with the needle.”
“It is all over my Oma’s arm, it is all over her nightie, soaking through her pillow, all over the sheets, there is so much blood.
“And throughout all this time, mind you, the nurse is not wearing gloves.”
Hellbound and Down 