Dear editor,
I have great respect for the Catholic church and have received superb care at St. Joseph’s Hospital but it is the wrong place to be governing end of life care.
Canadians deserve to be listened to and allowed to make the most personal of choices. In this case I’m talking about medical aid in dying. I don’t expect the Catholic church to change its rules about suicide. It cannot. It also cannot be allowed to impose its rules on the populace.
Those of us who believe end of life decisions are personal and up to the patient are clear that the new long term care facility proposal with 70 beds and a six- bed hospice adjoining must be non-faith based and secular.
Walter Jordan
Courtenay
