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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by philistine on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:11AM (#42400404)
> If an individual in a difficult life situation comes to the state for help as a last resort, and there is a chance the representative they are assigned would recommend they should consider just dying as their last resort, the state has already failed

Medical assistance in dying is a medical act, reserved to doctors. Just like a car salesman can't legally recommend you an abortion. No one in the government has the legal right to discuss it, even less offer it.

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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by Martinussen on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:26PM (#42401813)
Yes, my point was that that person having a position where they are able to do that is already wrong. If a car salesman was telling every woman that came in they should get an abortion, there are places that person should be, and none of them are a car dealer's.
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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by buildsjets on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:28PM (#42403544)
The Supreme Court then?
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