Nov 23, 2022
A Canadian man has filed a lawsuit alleging that he has been pressured into ending his life by hospital staff due to the increasingly high cost of his treatment. Forty-seven-year-old Roger Foley, who is from Ontario, suffers from a disease called cerebellar ataxia, which attacks the brain and muscles. Foley told the New York Post that the condition causes "the white matter in the main area of my cerebella" to "vanish." He said that this in turn deteriorates the part of his brain that controls interior organ function. "I was sick and uncoordinated in my childhood," Foley told the Post. "In my 20s, I lost my ability to walk and use my limbs. In my 30s I became unable to walk and needed assistance in living. I ended up in the hospital at age 40. I've been here since then and [the disability] is getting worse." In the lawsuit, filed against the Victoria Hospital London Health Sciences Centre, Foley alleged that he has been pressured into assisted
