In her final testimony at a coroner’s inquest into the death of her husband, Sylvie Brosseau wept at length on Thursday as she recounted the horrors Normand Meunier suffered at the St-Jérôme Hospital before he chose to end his life with medical assistance in dying (MAID).
Meunier, who was quadriplegic at the time of his death on March 29, 2024, developed gaping, irreversible bed sores on his buttocks — over 20 centimetres in width — after languishing four days on a bare stretcher in a harried emergency room. Brosseau reiterated that the hospital failed to provide until it was too late the mattress her husband absolutely needed for his festering bed sores.
