Newest member of support group R.O.V.E. gives horrifying account of mother’s grim and agonising death

Jacqui Deevoy

Since I made the documentary ‘A Good Death?’ with Ickonic, I’ve received endless horrifying and heartbreaking stories from people who claim their loved ones have been euthanised in hospital.

The story below is the most recent, sent to me by someone whose 76-year-old mother went into hospital with backache and who was drugged to death in a matter of days.

I set up a support group – R.O.V.E (Relatives Of Victims of Euthanasia) – back in 2021. The person who told me the story below is its 94th member. I spoke to them last night. Here’s what they told me:

“My 76-year-old mum was admitted into the Royal London Hospital with backache less than two weeks ago. She had early emphysema but could breathe on her own. She was given morphine in A & E, then left on a trolley for 12 hours. Then she was put on oxygen and moved to a ward.

We were told within days she had lung cancer and a chest infection yet they refused to show me the X-ray results, despite me asking many times.

They said the antibiotics weren’t clearing up her chest infection. They then increased the morphine and said she had weeks to live. At this stage, she was struggling to breathe on her own: 48 hours later, I was told she had just days to live. A nurse said they were going to have to give her Midazolam and rushed towards the door. I shouted “NO!” and she stopped in their tracks. Another nurse then became hostile and started questioning me, asking why I didn’t want my mum to have Midazolam. I explained how I knew it was used in lethal injections and said I didn’t want to risk losing my mum. They seemed to accept that. A bit later, however, when I’d gone home to get some sleep, the nurses convinced my two siblings to let her have it and, during the night, they administered the Midazolam on top of the morphine.

Shortly after, in the early hours of 22nd September 2023, my brother texted me to say our mum was deteriorating fast. I rushed to the hospital and saw a nurse giving her another dose of Midazolam and morphine. A few hours later, she was dead.

It was a terrible death. She was struggling to breathe, turning blue, digging her nails into the bed, in agonising pain she passed away.

She’d told me several times they were trying to kill her. I questioned one of the doctors and he said that the morphine was making her say silly things. But she wasn’t being silly – she KNEW. She knew what they were doing and that’s why she kept saying she was frightened and wanted to go home. I wanted to take her home but it all happened so quickly.

In my opinion, my mum was murdered and didn’t stand a chance.”

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