Editorial: Freedom denied April 8, 2021 The little hospice that refused to give in to the steamrolling politics of so-called “medical assistance in dying” is no more. The Irene Thomas Hospice in Delta, B.C., was officially taken over on March 29 by the local health authority, which promises to re-open the facility — complete with assisted suicide options — by April 15. It is the end of a long battle for the Delta Hospice Society, which had sought to provide compassionate end-of-life care without resorting to administering lethal injections on-site. “Now we have nothing,” society president Angelina Ireland told The B.C. Catholic. “Now we have to create ourselves again.”