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In Newfoundland, a handful of practitioners are taking on skyrocketing MAID requests
(atlantic.ctvnews.ca)
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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its not effing eugenics. None of this can be done without consent. Its a ridiculous argument. I surrender my fate to my wife if I am incapable of decision making and I am very happy she will not take some sort of twisted fringe political view to make her decisions about me. My god I can't believe you just said you would allow your loved ones to live torturous lives if the decision was yours.
I'm not a lawyer but I don't think substitute decision makers or advanced directives are legal for MAID. Only for withdrawal of life support.
It amounts to the same thing though. I was using it as an example because right now im relatively healthy and don't currently need the maid option but if I did I want that option.
Okay, now I better understand your argument. I was ready to just dismiss you as a crank.
I agree with you that governments should not be in the death business. But they already are, in a sense, in their legislation of things like murder, negligence causing death, etc.
I think that proper legislation would allow for someone to help me carry out my wishes in dignified ways that are less traumatic to those I leave behind. Obviously, that means regulation to ensure that nobody is imposing their will on mine.
At the very least, I don't want anyone charged with negligence just because they didn't stop me from taking what turns out to be my final swim.
I mean my original comment on comment action was a quote from the article so hardly a crank. I was just giving context and sorta assume the first comment was done without reading the article, but maybe you mean once I was responding to the response as that where it became more of a debate. But yeah I just don't want to lose the right to die if my life circumstance is aweful.
Yeah, I probably shouldn't have written the "crank" bit. It seems my battle against stream of consciousness writing continues...
My apologies.
oh no worries. you were just expressing yourself. online communication without facial expressions and queues and such is always difficult. I enjoy little extended convos like this. makes the internet feel a bit more civilized.
Ok, good. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I agree that engaging for long enough to go beyond hot takes is nice.