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Insight: She's 47, anorexic and wants help dying. Canada will soon allow it. (www.reuters.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] 54 points 3 years ago (4 children)

If people wanna die, they'll die.

Our choice is whether it's humane, or super cruel and messy. It's a binary choice; you pick.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The key issue is this. While we should allow death with dignity, we should also support life with dignity. We are failing badly in that category for far too many people.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Unfortunately, as soon as offing yourself becomes an easily accessible option, we are less motivated to help people. We've already had too many scandals of people looking for help being asked if they've considered medically assisted suicide.

    I am 100% in support of the personal choice to end your life. I don't want it to become a government offered solution to solvable problems.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Your statement makes no sense. People are highlighting failings in our social supports, in this case by asking to use MAID. So those services were lacking prior to MAID bring expanded, and will probably be lacking for many years to come, MAID or not. And since medical care is primarily provided by the government in Canada, medically assisted suicide falling under government funding isn't surprising.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Wait for the Jesus freaks with a saviour complex to tell you how they can save literally everybody

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