Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths

Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by fatbird on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:02AM (#42400282)

The story here isn't about problems with MAID, it's about inadequate support for the poor and disabled. Even then, your link is about those patients requesting it, not about it being forced on them.

It's unsurprising to me that someone with few resources and irreversible, painful disability, but lacking an imminent death, would request MAID. I don't see how this is an argument against MAID.

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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by lucubratory on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:47PM (#42404958)

What incentive does the government have to increase disability support payments to appropriate levels when the alternative (keeping payments inadequate to force them to kill themselves) is much cheaper for the government and continuously kills people who would otherwise advocate for an increase to disability support payments?

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