Vancouver Island tops assisted suicide rate
VANCOUVER – The rate of medically-assisted deaths on Vancouver Island is about five times higher than in the rest of the country.
Comment: It’s time to tell our side of euthanasia story
A few weeks ago the Sunday New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy feature about a Vancouver Island man who had chosen to die by euthanasia. John Shields, a former priest who later married, was suffering from a rare disease that caused proteins to build up in his heart and painful nerve damage in his arms and legs, the Times story said.
You can’t take the mission priest out of Bishop Gordon
New Victoria bishop encourages a stint in Canada’s north for priests before ministering on Vancouver Island