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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨month⊠agoWhat youâre referring to is called genocide. I donât think Iâve ever heard of anyone promote euthanasia as a solution to depression or any disability outside fascism.
This isnât about you. Euthanasia is about personal freedom and choice. Itâs about enabling the people who have terminal illnesses, and are guaranteed a slow and painful death, the ability to choose a painless death on their own terms. Watching my father die of dementia is what I imagine hell would be like. Forced to live in a prison of your own mind, unable to remember anyone or anything, or what happened a minute ago, for x number of years until you forget how to swallow, then die of pneumonia. Thatâs not something Iâm willing to live through, and Iâd prefer to choose to die a few years earlier to avoid it. The opposition to euthanasia directly causes millions of people to suffer needlessly. It removes their freedom and choose.
the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨month⊠ago
If thatâs the case, then why does Canada allow people only with mental illnesses and addictions to seek out MAID? And how do you know for sure that this isnât going to expand as a cost-cutting measure throughout any healthcare system that enables it?
It is genocide.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨month⊠ago
Because you believe bullshit, that isnât true in the slightest? Currently, ONLY people who are terminally ill or suffering are allowed.
I donât. Healthcare professionals wouldnât agree to that, but medical science canât prevent a fascist government from using anything to murder undesirables. In fact I expect oligarchs around the world to commit genocide en masse due to climate change and mass automation/unemployment.
Euthanasia is voluntary. The moment itâs no longer voluntary it becomes murder/genocide. What youâre worried about is murder/genocide. Not euthanasia. Youâre worried about the wrong thing.
the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨month⊠ago
www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ad-am/bk-di.html
I was mistaken in that it was currently available. However, theyâre planning on making it available for solely mental conditions in the future and have been pushing the eligibility date back for a few years. The fact remains they think this is a good idea and want to do it.
Theyâre already agreeing to killing their patients to begin with. Healthcare decisions are made based on cost constantly. The door is open, anything is possible now. And not only that, but there have been plenty of unethical medical practices in history that are no longer done, like the lobotomy.
problematicPanther@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨month⊠ago
What are you talking about? The only people allowed to get any kind of assisted suicide are people who are terminally ill, like people with cancer.
the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨month⊠ago
I was mistaken in my previous posts. I wasnât aware that the effective date of MAID for mentally ill people had been pushed out again. But the fact remains itâs in the plans and itâs very likely to become a reality; if they didnât want to do it, they would have revoked it entirely.
problematicPanther@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨month⊠ago
Theyâre talking about expanding it to allow terminally ill people with mental illnesses to access maid, not saying that you must be mentally ill to receive it.