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This just sounds like a convenient way to get rid of homeless people
"Addicted to drugs? Sounds like you want to die. Here, we'll help."
WCGW?
Yeah I support the right to a comfortable death, but there’s a hard line here of only for people who will die in the near future with or without intervention of a disease they’re suffering from a sufficiently advanced case of. And it needs strict controls including oversight by disabled people.
I’ve watched a person slowly and painfully waste away to a disease. But I’ve also seen people say my life isn’t worth living.
Choices still matter in drug addiction and it shouldn’t receive the final mercy we may choose to offer to the terminally ill who are unable to even end their own life. If they want to die then they should have to do it themselves without help.
Now you’re making yourself the arbiter of whose suffering is deserving of relief. Who are you to be the judge?
The difference is that drug addiction can be cured. Maybe we should try rehab first. If they're not clean or OD'ed after x number of years ok maybe then. But hell let's try first.
Drug addiction cannot be cured. For many, it can be successfully treated, but it’s a chronic condition which requires a lifetime of treatment. Results vary widely, as does quality of life for those with addiction.
And nobody is saying attempts to treat a person’s addiction shouldn’t be tried first.
This dude never heard of LSD in his life
Nobody is being the judge, the individuals condition is what is preventing them from commiting suicide. And we have no moral obligation to carry out any action someone else wants, including killing them.
You are judging these individuals here, based on your morals. This isn’t about your morals, nor is anyone claiming that you are obligated to do anything. If someone else wishes to apply for this program due to their irremediable physical and/or psychological suffering, who are you to say they’re undeserving of the help, especially when it has nothing to do with you?
"Judging these individuals here"
Are you illiterate? Would you like to prove this statement to me?
"Nobody is claiming that you are obligated"
One is not obligated, this had nothing to do with me specifically.
"Who are you to say that they're undeserving of that help"
Because there is no obligation to enable an action based on a desire. This is simply you (and others who make this argument) carving out a moral imperative simply because it justifies something you already want (post-hoc justification).
Mixing insults with the straw man argument that this has anything to do with morality is a fallacious argument on its face. And feigning ignorance of the meaning of your own words while asserting an intellectual argument is peak mental gymnastics. And I’m not trying to justify anything— it’s you who is trying to justify denying people medically-approved care due to your stated morality and a refusal of some “obligation” that doesn’t actually exist.
Nobody but you is claiming any “obligation” to anything. This is matter between an individual and their medical providers, not one which involves you in any way. So, once again who are you to judge these people as undeserving of the state’s assistance if their medical providers approve them for it?
Maybe assisted becomes recommended, and recommended becomes prescribed?
They are already offering it to people with disabilities
I'd prefer if it was approved for everybody. Don't like living, and still feel that way after a mandatory counseling course you should be allowed to choose to end your life in a humane and clean way.
‘Mandatory counselling course’ sounds like not trying very hard just to rush to the next step. Something hitler would say if he was looking to save on gas.
It's as simple as forbidding medical experts from recommending the procedure. Patients can request it on their own accord.
Remember when death panels were a crazy right wing talking point? Thanks Canada.
Death panels still aren't a thing you dingus. No bodies of people deciding whether or not you should live or die, just people gaining the option to request it.
They are in the US. They're called insurance companies.
This is technically the case everywhere.
Healthcare is one of those things that will consume all available resources, and we can't do that.
Consider someone that requires round the clock, individual care. They are consuming the entire economic output of more than three people to care for someone that will have no more. I know there's a lot of communists here, but communism doesn't change that fact.
What if we could keep someone alive for $1M per day? How long should we do it? We shouldn't, and "death panels" are how that needs to be decided.
You can talk about price gouging, but really high end medical care is akin to magic. It takes very smart people to do it, and something like an MRI requires liquid helium to remain superconducting. That's just extremely expensive.
Edit: this place is really weird. So many down votes. No argument against it. Very toxic.
Well EU has pretty good healthcare but noons pays 3x market value of their car for single ambulance.
No one is talking about that. Healthcare has a budget. You have to distribute that budget equitably.
It's a more generalized, non emergency version of triage.
Some people will die no matter what you do. Don't waste resources on them. Some people will recover if you do nothing. Don't waste resources on them.
Some people will recover if you spend resources on them and die if your don't. Use your resources on them.
There's always a cost benefit tradeoff.
While this is technically true. Back in reality land they were found to be automating the process of groundless denials having doctors lie about having examined dozens of cases despite having spent all of 10 seconds in a screen clicking deny all. Our current situation IS death panels and not just for the dying.
Sure. That's not really a death panel though. That's the inefficiency of lots of systems. If you make someone jump through enough hoops, they'll give up. That saves money.
And those bodies totally won't start gently suggesting this option. It totally hasn't already happened...
Like when? The big one people were up in arms about was the veteran who was advised to look into it by a Veteran Affairs employee. Veteran Affairs has absolutely no say in whether someone can or should seek MAID, and that employee was acting alone. Pretty sure they got shit canned for it too.
What evidence do you have for this?
found the guy with truly hilarious ideas about what informed consent means
One involves someone who hasn't fully developed their brain, being taken advantage of. The other involves grown people who are most likely not going to make the decision lightly, and have years of proof they'll keep suffering. I'd also imagine it's not some instant suicide booth like Futurama, there's not gonna be a "Death same night, guaranteed" run of clinics.
So you don't believe that medical conditions affect your brain?
Aging alone effects it, elderly people are arguably less mentally capable than teenagers. So if teenagers cannot consent to sex based on mental capability, then how are lower capability elderly supposed to be able to consent to death?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Not really, maybe the timeline, but moving from drug addicts to the disabled is a well worn path. It happened with sterilization
You’re comparing something that was forced upon people to something that is a choice and which a person must qualify for. It’s comparing apples and oranges.
For the police? Agreed.