• Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If you're wondering how fun this could get, here's an article from the National Post arguing that poverty should be a qualifier for assisted suicide

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-medical-aid-in-dying

    Here's another where a woman with sensitivities to various chemical smells chose to die because she couldn't find an apartment that was affordable and didn't reek of noxious chemicals

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivities-chose-medically-assisted-death-after-failed-bid-to-get-better-housing-1.5860579

    The people who are worried about this aren't worried about people who genuinely want to die committing suicide. It was always nearly impossible to stop them anyway, and there's no way to change that. What we're worried about is people being pushed toward MAID because they've been systemically denied things they need to live that are absolutely available. We're worried about mentally ill people being told "do the right thing, don't be a burden" when they want to live. We're worried about suicide becoming the answer to problems that are caused by social and legislative conditions. We're worried about becoming the kind of society where, rather than help one another, it's expected that anyone who needs help just off themselves.

    This is all coming from someone who tried twice and will be eternally grateful that I managed to fuck it up both times.

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      1 year ago

      Your comment brings up the most relevant point against MAID and it's clear we can be a better society than one which pushes people over the edge, or let's them fall despite their pleas.

      I too am glad that you managed to fuck it up and that you're here with us.

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      Glad you pushed through this.

      As someone with a disability, this is one of my biggest fears: Social pressure to seek assisted suicide.

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        1 year ago

        Within reason.

        But if the reason given is because classists don’t want you dirtying up their sidewalk with a wheelchair ramp, that’s just unreasonable.

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        Having people kill themselves because they can't afford to live is the opposite of humane.

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      I got close to trying several times. I suffer from anxiety and depression, I'm obsessive but I love life. I just wish I could solve my mental issues. Offing yourself is not a solution. It's like I have a math question in front of me and I rip up the paper and toss it in a can.

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      I'm glad you made it here.

      As a mental health professional, the slow leaning towards mental health issues being a qualification for MAID is terrifying.

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      This is what the anti-suicide crowd fucking told you would happen if you legitimized or legalized suicide, and now that it's happening, you're once again refusing to connect it with supporting bad policies with no thought or consideration for the consequences.

      But you're not the one who's gonna suffer so why should you give a shit, amirite? 🤷

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          I love it when you are so hopped up on the smell of your own shit that you give away you're just being a skeevy fuck by trying to make the discussion all about your opponent's emotions and not about the topic at hand.

          You didn't consider at all what I said isn't only directed at you, but who cares as long as you get to win something?

          What we’re worried about is people being pushed toward MAID because they’ve been systemically denied things they need to live that are absolutely available.

          Like here, where you are steadfastly defending assisted suicide and not acknowledging anywhere this is what opponents told you would happen. And you argue you want it both ways afterward and you don't get that you can't have it both ways; humanity is too immature and tyrannical for that, so if you want to save the impoverished people being targeted for suicide, you have to ban ALL legally assisted suicide outright. There is no middle ground with depraved fucks in western governments.

          But you don't care about the topic, you just want to win an argument on the internet. Well, here's your trophy 🏆 But the policy is still bad and you're still wrong for defending it.

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            I'm all for a painless way out for people who genuinely have no hope, who are going to die a painful death or live an existence of torture where there is zero medical, technological, or social solution to ease their lives.

            But it's crazy to me that so many people are against the death penalty because of the risk of a mistake, but they're perfectly okay with assisted suicide that has zero oversight. You'd have thought they'd absolutely see this coming since they know how little the 1% cares about them.