Next year's expansion of the criteria for medically assisted death will allow Canadians like Lisa Pauli, whose sole underlying condition is mental illness, the choice to die in this way.
If the government isn’t going to bother to help these people why force them to stay alive if they have really thought about it and would rather be dead? People kill themselves for a variety of reasons, at least in this case they tried to get help and can die peacefully instead of some of the other horrific methods desperate people end up using.
We should be expanding access to mental health treatment, fixing income inequality, stop fucking over disabled people, etc. But that’s obviously the opposite of what has been happening, and I agree with you… People should have the right to die if that’s what they really want given the situation they are in. And if that is genocide, that genocide has already been happening just in a much more brutal way. It’s not like someone who bothers to go through this process who gets rejected is just going to be like “oh well, the government said I can’t end my life guess I need to listen”
If the government isn’t going to bother to help these people why force them to stay alive if they have really thought about it and would rather be dead? People kill themselves for a variety of reasons, at least in this case they tried to get help and can die peacefully instead of some of the other horrific methods desperate people end up using.
We should be expanding access to mental health treatment, fixing income inequality, stop fucking over disabled people, etc. But that’s obviously the opposite of what has been happening, and I agree with you… People should have the right to die if that’s what they really want given the situation they are in. And if that is genocide, that genocide has already been happening just in a much more brutal way. It’s not like someone who bothers to go through this process who gets rejected is just going to be like “oh well, the government said I can’t end my life guess I need to listen”