• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    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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      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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        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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          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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      Allowing death with dignity on a person’s terms is fantastic. I just hope we continue to support them until thr very end to ensure dignity the whole way

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

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        There’s nothing so evil as someone thinking they’re doing good as per some arbitrary belief structure.

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        They tend to shut up when you ask them to actually help in any meaningful, concrete way. They’ll sure protest though.

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        There’s nothing so evil as someone thinking they’re doing good as per some arbitrary belief structure.