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12/11/2025

This needs to change!
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Rowan is far from alone in the injustice he faced, we all face this same reality.

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Brayden's life mattered! ❤️

British Columbia’s current wrongful death legislation, the Family Compensation Act (FCA), fails to recognize the full value of human life. By limiting compensation to direct financial losses, the law excludes children, seniors, and people with disabilities—groups whose contributions may not be measured in income but whose lives are equally meaningful. This brief outlines the discriminatory gaps in the FCA, compares BC’s framework with other provinces, and provides recommendations for legislative reform.

Background
• Current Law: The FCA (RSBC 1996, c.126) allows families to claim damages only for quantifiable financial losses (e.g., lost income, funeral expenses, household services).
• Exclusions: Families cannot recover damages for grief, emotional suffering, or loss of companionship.
• Impact: Wrongful deaths of children, elders, and people with disabilities are often deemed legally “worthless” because they do not generate income. Families are denied access to justice and truth.
• Disparity: If a wrongful act causes injury, individuals can seek compensation regardless of income. If the same act causes death, families are barred from justice unless the deceased was a breadwinner.

Comparative Analysis
• Alberta & Ontario: Both provinces allow claims for non-financial losses, including grief and loss of companionship.
• Manitoba: Provides broader recognition of wrongful death damages, including emotional suffering.
• BC: Remains one of the few provinces where wrongful death law is narrowly restricted to financial loss.

Key Issues
1. Discrimination: The FCA creates a hierarchy of lives, valuing wage earners while marginalizing children, seniors, and people with disabilities.
2. Access to Justice: Families are denied their day in court unless the deceased had measurable income.
3. Systemic Injustice: The law perpetuates inequity by treating wrongful death as less significant than wrongful injury.

Recommendations
1. Legislative Reform: Amend the FCA to include non-financial damages such as grief, loss of companionship, and emotional suffering.
2. Equity in Law: Ensure all lives are valued equally, regardless of income status.
3. Transparency & Accountability: Establish independent oversight mechanisms to investigate wrongful deaths and provide families with access to truth.
4. Public Awareness: Launch campaigns to inform British Columbians about the discriminatory nature of current law and mobilize support for reform.

Brayden’s wrongful death exemplifies the systemic failures of BC’s current framework. His story is not only one of personal tragedy but of public injustice. Reforming the Family Compensation Act is essential to ensure that no family is denied justice, and that every life in British Columbia is recognized as inherently valuable.

Please share... no family should have to go through what we are currently experiencing 😥.

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11/29/2025

What do we want?
Two things:

1. We want the public to learn to properly self advocate:
Your doctor may not listen or treat you as thoroughly as they should. Speak to your family doctor & friends/family to learn the steps you need to take, do not rely on the hospital to educate you.
Advocate for your children.
Speak with your young adults and teach them how to self advocate. Advocate for them until you are assured they can do it themselves.

2. Fraser Health and the Health Minister to commit to a) Emergency Care Reform & b) Wrongful Death policy review for reform:

a) Emergency Care Reform

Public Education
Mandate a Provincial Public Health Education Campaign to clarify the appropriate use of Emergency Departments (ERs) versus Urgent and Primary Care Centres (UPCCs), including a clear module on patient rights and effective self-advocacy within the healthcare system.

Frontline Training
Implement mandatory, standardized, and recurring training for all frontline healthcare workers (including triage nurses and clerical staff) focusing on symptom reporting vigilance, empathetic communication, and cultural safety to ensure patient-reported symptoms are taken seriously and addressed thoroughly.

Primary Care
Increase funding and implement aggressive retention policies targeting Family Physicians to ensure every BC resident has access to an accessible primary care provider, thus reducing preventable emergencies.

Surrey Memorial Review
Immediately commission a transparent, independent, third-party review of the implementation and effectiveness of the existing 30 Priority Actions for Surrey Memorial Hospital, with a public report detailing progress, shortcomings, and required adjustments within six months.

Integration
Mandate the addition of the Public Education Campaign and the Frontline Training Reforms (as detailed above) as official, new action items within the reviewed 30 Priority Actions for Surrey Memorial Hospital.

b) Wrongful Death Review
Commit to a full and immediate policy and legislative review of the framework governing accountability in cases of medical negligence and wrongful death within BC, including a review of the Limitations Act and potential legal protections afforded to doctors/hospitals.

Third-Party Oversight
Mandate the immediate establishment of an independent, arm’s-length Third-Party Oversight Body responsible for reviewing and investigating all serious adverse events and quality-of-care complaints across all BC Health Authorities (including Fraser Health), ensuring the Health Authority cannot solely investigate itself.

11/27/2025

An additional story including the Health Minister and others will be airing on Global News tonight at 6pm

11/26/2025

What Happened?:

November 18th 2025:

Rowan told his family he was concerned about his breathing and rapid heart rate, went to urgent care near Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) where he was sent over to SMH Emergency as urgent care was flooded (water). At SMH Rowan told them that his family suspected he had pneumonia with the following symptoms: severe shortness of breath, a rapid heart rate (especially when standing up), his vision would black out and was blurring, he was coughing up greenish mucus with bits of blood, and he felt nauseous.

The emergency doctors sent Rowan to an external location near SMH for x-rays of his lungs. The doctor reviewed the x-rays and informed Rowan he did not have pneumonia, prescribed antibiotics, told Rowan "it's likely the thing that is going around right now" (as stated by Rowan), and sent him on his way. Rowan later stated that the doctor said antibiotics would likely do nothing for him but might prevent him from spreading his unnamed, undiagnosed, illness to others. No testing was done to address any of the serious symptoms Rowan was describing aside from an x-ray that disproved Rowan's self diagnosis.

Rowan was discharged with no explanation or investigation into his serious symptoms as described above.

November 19th 2025

Rowan collapsed at work shortly after beginning his shift. 911 was called and Rowan was placed in an ambulance. Here his heart stopped. A second ambulance was called for advanced support. Paramedics determined that Rowan had Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA). The team of paramedics provided Rowan manual life maintaining intervention all the way to SMH. On arrival to SMH, the medical staff used the LUCAS machine to do chest compressions for 20+ minutes before calling the Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) to get Rowan accepted. The doctor in charge should have made this call within minutes, not 20's of minutes.

RCH "demanded" (RCH's words) that Rowan be rushed to them "immediately" (RCH's words). 20 minutes after calling RCH, already waiting paramedics were instructed to take Rowan to RCH, with the LUCAS machine doing all of the compressions during the wait. It took the ambulance nearly 23-25 minutes to arrive at RCH, 2 minutes faster than his family travelled the same distance.The entire ambulance ride over Rowan received chest compressions by the LUCAS machine overseen by a doctor from SMH.

While Rowan was in transport from SMH to RCH, doctor's at RCH reviewed the November 18th transcript from Rowan's visit to SMH. The RCH doctors assumed Rowan was suffering pulmonary emboli "within 10 minutes of review of the SMH transcripts" (RCH's words). SMH should have made the exact assumption on November 18th when Rowan WALKED in.

10-15 minutes after arriving to RCH the team there had Rowan fully connected to the ECMO machine putting him on full machine life support and medically induced coma. Shortly thereafter CT scan revealed blood clots in his lungs confirming their suspicion of pulmonary emboli. Rowan's brain looked "beautiful" (RCH's words). However a small part of the brain, just above the brainstem, was "severely swollen, this is one of the first signs of oxygen deprivation to the brain" (RCH's words). Rowan was placed into an induced hypothermic state to aid in reducing brain inflammation. RCH followed every and all expected protocol given Rowan's condition. Rowan spent the remainder of the 19th in the cardiac surgery intensive care unit. Overnight Rowan's condition worsened, and a CT scan was ordered for the morning.

November 20th 2025

Rowan received the ordered CT scan. The results showed catastrophic brain failure and Rowan was pronounced officially brain dead at 221pm as the last of his organs failed.
That evening several friends and family came in to see Rowan for the last time. Rowan's immediate family surrounded him and held his hand as the nurses turned off the life supporting machines.
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The team at RCH took Rowan on knowing that the exceptional gap in time between identifying PEA and arriving at RCH left near impossible odds.
They gave him to the last possible second. RCH did everything they could. Rowan did more.

Doctors and nurses, at RCH, took the family to a private room and told them the news. In that room the family was told this:
This was preventable.
The paramedics that collected Rowan from work determined quickly that Rowan had suffered Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA) which is a non-shockable (heart) rhythm which SMH is not equipped to treat if a pulse cannot be restored. Rowan should have been taken to RCH after an exceptionally short visit at SMH.
On November 18th The Surrey Emergency Doctor did no evaluations into Rowan's symptoms beyond the xray for potential pneumonia (which was Rowan's assumption not a doctor's diagnosis).

On November 18th 2025 at approximately 145pm a doctor at Surrey Memorial had an opportunity to be a hero by simply doing his job. Instead he chose to hear only Rowan's self diagnosis, disprove Rowan's self diagnosis via x-ray, do literally zero investigation into what the root causes of Rowan's serious symptoms were, and sent Rowan home with medication for an undiagnosed illness.

On November 19th 2025 at approximately 930am paramedics determined Rowan suffered PEA. These paramedics did everything they could and got him to SMH. Once PEA was determined and vitals could not be stabilized, RCH should have been where Rowan was immediately taken. At approximately 10am SMH could not get Rowan stable after several rounds of LUCAS delivered chest compressions. SMH continued in this line of "care" for over 20 minutes before placing a call to RCH to have Rowan transferred.

On November 20th 2025 Rowan's vital organs failed. At 2:21pm Rowan was pronounced brain dead.



Fraser Health
David Eby

11/26/2025

The Message:

The paramedics that attended to Rowan did their heroic best, these people kept Rowan alive through their manual efforts. All the families that have been affected by Rowan's passing will be forever grateful to the teams of Paramedics that gave everything they could to keep Rowan with us. These Paramedics will continue to change lives without thanks. Our family, Rowan's family, hope that this message reaches these incredible individuals. Thank you will never be enough, please know that the community you serve does love and appreciate you. You gave Rowan a fighting chance.

Despite questions regarding doctor's decisions, the medical team at Surrey Memorial did all they could. These people fought hard, Rowan's family saw their efforts first hand. The events that the Surrey Memorial medical staff were present for, the work they were doing for Rowan is traumatic. They do this work daily, efforts unrecognized, in an environment that is understaffed and overwhelmed. To the people that sustained Rowan because he was there with you at Surrey Memorial, thank you for everything you did. Rowan should not have needed a second visit to SMH. On the second visit a doctor should have made a much faster call. Rowan should have been with you for 40 minutes less than he was.

The team at the Royal Columbian Hospital took Rowan in knowing the impossible odds that were now stacked against him as the time they needed to save him was spent by SMH deciding to call RCH. With impossible odds, this team took Rowan on without hesitation and stayed by Rowan's side as he fought for two days. The team at RCH gave Rowan everything they could and every opportunity they could to recover. The care this team offered to Rowan and his family cannot be expressed with words. The families connected to Rowan want to express their extreme gratitude and respect to the RCH team. You overextend in literally every possible way. You took Rowan as family.

The fact that no investigation took place on November 18th, aside from Rowan's self diagnosis must be investigated and there must be accountability. Rowan walked in asking for help, standing on his own two feet, in a yet to be known desperate state. A doctor had the chance to be a hero by just doing his job adequately. Rowan left with a bottle of confidence in the form of a prescription for antibiotics.

Rowan lost 24hrs of critical time as a result.

The Hope:

Public health system reform:
Our public health system is in crisis, our medical practitioners need support.
The medical teams in the Fraser Health Region are exhaustingly overwhelmed, understaffed, and under equipped.
The public is clogging the emergency system through their lack of education around our emergency services and are lacking access to family doctors to prevent them from reaching emergency status.
In May 2023 and again in September 2024 doctors at Surrey Memorial Hospital wrote letters to Fraser Health, which were covered publicly by many media outlets, warning of the terrible working conditions and a toxic work environment that was contributing to the substandard level of care. Big changes have occurred, nearly 500 staff have been hired, facilities expanded, a full "30 point plan" is in place.

Still SMH fails.

Wrongful death legal reform:
Hospitals cannot be held accountable so as to protect the tax dollars that would be lost if the public could sue a doctor or hospital. Rowan's family does not wish for money in exchange for his being.
His family would absolutely love to name the doctor's from the 18th and 19th and see to it that they do not touch another patient. These doctors cannot be sued/held accountable by the family. But these doctors can sue the family for defamation.

Our system needs to prioritize the taxpayers' lives over the taxpayers dollars. Simple.
A hospital or doctor is better off killing the patient than leaving them permanently altered. This is shocking and obscene.

To you, the public:
If we stay silent, if none of us stand up, nothing will change. Rowan's death was PREVENTABLE.

This can happen to you.

YOU MUST ADVOCATE FOR YOURSELF. Do not tell the doctor your diagnosis, rather tell them the symptoms and why they are scary for you.
Do not leave until they have addressed your every symptom. DEMAND IT because some doctors won't.

See your family doctor regularly.

Do not wait to be an emergency


David Eby
Fraser Health

11/25/2025

Rowans story airing on Global News tonight.

A preview will run at 5pm, and full account on the 6pm News Hour.

Additional details will be posted here at 7pm.

11/25/2025

11/25/2025

Rowan's Message:

Details will be live on Tuesday, November 25 (evening)

11/25/2025

What Happened:

Details will be live on Tuesday, November 25 (evening)