• vxx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Drug addicts can’t do assisted suicide in Switzerland, it’s not an untreatable illness.

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        1 year ago

        In Swiss they have to try everything and fail several therapies before even being considered by a doctor. In Canada they want to assist suicide because therapies are not available according to the article, especially for rural living people. In Swiss It’s a rare exceptions that someone will get assisted suicide for depression, but it won’t fly at all for just addiction.

        Sounds like getting rid of undesirables instead of trying to fix things to help them.

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          In addition to having a mental disorder that has been there for a very long time and that is significantly impairing their function, treatments have to have been tried and those treatments have to be treatments that are expected, usual, and evidence-based

          That really does not sound like that at all.