Granddaughter says grandma rejected MAID before lethal procedure, ‘I don’t want the death shot’

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The granddaughter of an 83-year-old Canadian woman who died through the country’s assisted-death program in July says her grandmother had no idea she was about to die until she was told she would be given a lethal injection just days prior.

Brigitte Kranendonk, who cared for her grandmother Brigitte Stegemann, says the family cut short a vacation after learning that the long-term care home had scheduled a second MAiD assessment, despite Stegemann previously declining the procedure.

"Just before we had come back from our vacation, I received a phone call from the home stating that they had booked a second assessment for MAiD to happen with my grandmother, and at this point my Oma had already denied MAiD," Kranendonk told Fox News Digital in an interview Tuesday.

"When we went to the home after our vacation – we did cut it short, we came home, we saw her.

She had no idea what was happening." DEMENTIA STOLE MY GRANDMOTHER FROM US.

I AM FIGHTING TO GIVE FAMILIES MORE TIME Kranendonk said that she was her grandmother’s primary caregiver and that her family had decided to place Stegemann at The Pearl care home in Cannifton due to physical and mental decline.

Her grandmother, however, still had a good appetite and was in good spirits even following a stomach cancer diagnosis , and rejected the idea of using MAiD when it was presented as an option.

"She had an opportunity to get an IV port, meaning for injectable medicine.

They didn't have to re-poke her every time," Kranendonk said.

"It was kind of a one-and-done deal.

She had ripped it out several times because she kept saying, ‘I don't want the death shot.’" "And it wasn't until I, face to face, explained it to her that this is not what it is, this is just pain management," Kranendonk added.

"That was the scary part is that it felt like she went from screaming, 'I don't want the death shot,' to then accepting MAiD.