British Columbia is the last remaining province in Canada, including the Yukon, to modernize its wrongful death legislation to provide a modern standard of human value, dignity, and protection under the law.
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The tragic story of Natasha Forry and our antiquated wrongful death legislation has gone viral.
We’ve had over 3000 MLA letter submissions and nearly 60 donations in the first 24 hours. All previous public awareness records have been shattered.
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“Tasha was everything to me. She was my only child and throughout her life, I was mostly a single parent. We were very close and usually talked every day. I would be the first person she’d call to share exciting news and vice versa. We were inseparable. My beautiful daughter died suddenly at the young age of 29.” – Ann, mother of Natasha Forry
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16-year old Lindsey Kean from Nanaimo had her leg broken after being struck by a car while crossing the road. Her surgery was unnecessarily delayed, causing a fat embolism (a preventable medical error), and died as a result.
Hauntingly, 17-year old Heidi Klompas, daughter of one of The BC Wrongful Death Law Reform Society’s founding members, died 19 years earlier, from the exact same preventable medical error after having been hit and her legs broken by a drunk driver.
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Conceptualize a provincial government with such moral cowardice that they would prioritize their bloated corrupt crown corporation monopolies over the basic human rights already modernized and enshrined in the rest of the Canadian provinces and the developed world.
That was the task assigned to volunteer Nicole Lau, who passionately committed in excess of 100 hours to create the extraordinary new graphic banners for the social media profiles of In Their Name.
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