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She's 47, anorexic and wants help dying. Canada will soon allow it.
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I never understood why is assisted suicide illegal.
I understand that there are dangers of misuse, but some cases are obvious.
While I have found help and I am living good life now, I was in the problem for 15 years and even thou I am happy now - I still think it was not worth it.
If I knew how bad my next 15 years would be, I would like to finish it long time ago.
That's main reason I like Klingons so much.
100%
i did not consent to this. i withdraw my consent.
the end.
I think because of very valid fears about it being a cover for genocide. In the US we have very much done genocide like things like systematically taking women's reproductive organs. That one wasn't even that long ago when that one happened.
Looking at Canada, I'm not sure that assisted suicide won't always be used for genocide. You already have stories of people seeking it for no other reason than being disabled and poor in Canada is so hard they don't want to try anymore.
I dont think that the slow miserable death that is how dying is nowadays is great, but I do think that there's a valid reason people don't like the idea of the government sanctioning suicide when the government is perfectly capable of driving people to it. You make suicide boring and a lot of atrocities will be overlooked. Something being legal and on the surface perfectly okay can allow a bunch of terrible things to happen.
Because companies make money off it, which means they have incentives to push people into suicide instead of looking for ways to make their lives better
And honestly this would be the main reason to be against it. All avenues need to be exhausted before as is used, in my opinion.