Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
by margalabargala on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:48PM
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Flying a wingsuit out of an airplane as part of a skydive is not particularly dangerous. It's the base jumping, wingsuit or no, that is extremely dangerous.
Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
by LorenPechtel on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:51PM
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AFIAK you don't have a reserve when you're using a wingsuit.
Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
by margalabargala on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:36PM
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You're thinking of BASE jumping. Base jumpers do not use reserves generally.
Someone jumping out of an airplane with a wingsuit is wearing an ordinary skydiving rig complete with reserve and AAD.
Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
by karencarits on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:40PM
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If someone became extremely risk taking after a traumatic event, putting their life at stake at several occasions, it's not unreasonable to believe that - at least in some countries - the person would be forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, possibly through a temporary involuntary commitment
Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
by respondo2134 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:50PM
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one line that is crossed is putting others at risk or pulling them into their actions. I can't think of many scenarios where I'd support involuntary commitment when it was just the individual and their actions.
And that's the point. The person expressing the wish (and expressing it before the death) did.
People make choices. We should let them, wherever possible. Yes, there are consequences - but we also let people fly wingsuits and base jump, and those have known consequences as well. Would you also enjoin people from doing that after a traumatic event? What about mountain climbing? Diving? Crossing the street?
If you apply the "no major choices after a traumatic event for a while" line of thought, we'd need to install temporary guardians for anybody who has a traumatic event. That doesn't work.