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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2018
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Stuck in the slough
PHOTO BY ANDREW GALLINGER
The owner of this vessel got into trouble Sunday afternoon in Ladner slough. According to reports from nearby residents who contacted the Optimist, the owner was trying to move the vessel to the Ladner Yacht Club, but got caught at low tide and ended up getting stuck in the mud on some pilings. Over the course of the next day or so the vessel began to tilt and take on water. The coast guard attended Monday morning, putting booms around it to prevent any fuel leaks. The vessel was eventually removed by a salvage company in the early hours of Tuesday morning. See more photos at www.delta-optimist.com.
Hospice is standing its ground Macey says Ladner facility isn’t the right setting to to provide medically assisted deaths SANDOR GYARMATI
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The Delta Hospice Society is holding its ground against a Fraser Health directive to provide medically assisted deaths. In a presentation to the Fraser Health board last week, society executive director Nancy Macey reiterated that a hospice isn’t the right setting for what she
described as “euthanasia” procedures. “It’s a complex issue. People think dying is dying and it’s all the same thing, but it’s not. Euthanasia is not hospice palliative care,” she told the Optimist. Noting the society will have to discuss the issue with the community, Macey said she’s not opposed to people resorting to the federally-approved Medical
Assistance in Dying so Fraser Health is (MAiD) program. waiting and haven’t “Because we’re a society given an indication and we have a constitution what they will do and we have members, we pending what we have to figure out whether decide,” she said. we just stay with what our In July 2016, the constitution is and we tell federal government Fraser Health we can only Nancy Macey passed legislation do hospice palliative care. governing MAiD, Under our constitution, we are permitting medical assistance in not able to provide euthanasia, dying. Macey said the law stipu-
lates access can’t be denied, but contends that because it’s available in other settings, hospices shouldn’t be forced to provide medically assisted deaths. However, Fraser Health has decided they must, although Macey maintains Delta Hospice doesn’t have the staff or expertise to carry out such procedures. FRASER: see Page 4
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