Family Learns Hospice Bed Opened as Father Faced Scheduled Assisted Suicide

August 6, 2026 World News

As New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act takes effect for qualified terminally ill patients, Colleen De Vos shares the story of her father, a Catholic with a terminal illness who ended his life through Canada’s MAID program in 2023.

A Canadian woman said her father’s assisted suicide came after failed efforts to secure hospice care, as Catholic ministries challenge New York’s assisted suicide law in court.

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