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".
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.