Plaintiff in assisted dying court challenge finally gets medical help to die
OTTAWA — One of two British Columbia women challenging the federal government’s restrictive law on medically assisted dying has finally been able to end her suffering with the help of a doctor.
But Robyn Moro’s case will continue to be part of the constitutional challenge, held up as an example of the torment individuals can be forced to endure due to uncertainty over the law’s requirement that a person’s natural death must be “reasonably foreseeable.”
The 68-year-old suffered constant, excruciating pain from Parkinson’s disease but her doctor, Ellen Wiebe, determined last March that she was not eligible for assistance in dying because she was not near death.
“To say no to her was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” Wiebe said in an interview.