I also want to highlight that next year, Canada is both considering extending this to people with exclusively mental health issues as well as "Mature minors".
I also want to highlight that next year, Canada is both considering extending this to people with exclusively mental health issues as well as "Mature minors".
I posted this earlier in struggle session bc I’m sure there are some arguments / edge case scenarios to justify this, and euthanasia is such a loaded topic to being with, but the way they’re administering it seems pretty grim
I think I'm all for Jack Kevorkian style euthenasia existing in some form. but it should exist with 0 possiblity for it to be suggested to a patient as an option. there was an HBO biopic starring Al Pacino that made Kevorkian seem like a genuine hero for his advocacy. terminal patients have been killing themselves since the dawn of time and a humane society would allow for them to do it painlessly.
Like most things, it’s not going to happen under capitalism without major caveats. Those caveats being how much money you have in the bank
Ah shit, I'd missed that you'd posted there.
Yeah, theres arguments that can be had about this but I'd certainly hope that anyone arguing about it in good faith would see that theres openings for severe abuse and those openings have already been abused by institutions. Though most of the responses about this I saw on the bird site sorta just endlessly repeated some variation of "well its their freedom to choose".
No I’m glad to see some discussion bc I would like to hear what people have to say about it, I have never been in / known someone who experienced such profound pain that that would be on the table, but obviously there should be more transparency and less room for abuse asap
A friend's uncle had terminal stomach cancer and went through this process a few years ago. He was in extreme pain, couldn't eat, and was going to die anyway so it was definitely understandable in that case.
people should be allowed to kill ourselves but we should make that decision in a context where our needs are otherwise met, not with the threat of destitution.
so as others have said, not happening with capitalism.