I do disagree with you a bit. MAID isn’t like a take-a-number system, I don’t think it would be aiding impulsive suicidal thoughts. There is a doctor involved who should be on the hook for how and why the call to permit MAID is handled. That’s not perfect though.
You are missing the point. You are doing that right now. You are deciding that they shouldn’t die now, but later. You are deciding when other people should die.
I watched a documentary about MAID in Canada and in a European country (where they allow MAID for depression) for a philosophy of law class. One of the people in the story was a young woman who was in the process of applying for MAID because she was suicidal. By the end of the documentary she had been approved but had chosen not to go through with it yet. She was keeping her approval in her back pocket while attending counselling as provided to her by the process.
She said having the approval made her feel a lot better, like she was back in control of her life.
I think it’s important to design a process like this where you can always back out, and you always retain control.
True, but enough do act upon it that it’s a big issue. When hope dies is when people die. The biggest problem is at provincial levels because they’re the ones who decide what mental healthcare is paid for … and right now it’s very little. Usually only psychiatrists, but not psychologists, social workers, or any other mental health specialists. Those are all out-of-pocket and it’s expensive. Nevermind remote regions who often don’t have any.
This is not on the feds because they don’t control healthcare. The provinces do, and when you’ve got provincial leaders who care more about giving away tax dollars to big business than caring for the people, dying by MAID becomes an easy solution to a provincial greed problem.
Canada has always had a pathetic budget to fund biomedical research, because government assumed the US would pay the bills and we just buy the drugs.
Now, the US budget is zero, and we are paying hundreds of billions for drugs we should be making locally. This amplified under Trudeau and Carney, because CDN voters don’t care. Carbon tax was the priority.
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I do disagree with you a bit. MAID isn’t like a take-a-number system, I don’t think it would be aiding impulsive suicidal thoughts. There is a doctor involved who should be on the hook for how and why the call to permit MAID is handled. That’s not perfect though.
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That’s a good point, but I think it’s where I think you need someone with intimate knowledge of the situation to decide.
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Denying someone MAID is also deciding if the person should live or die. You just don’t like the “or die” part of that decision.
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You are missing the point. You are doing that right now. You are deciding that they shouldn’t die now, but later. You are deciding when other people should die.
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To decide whether their situation warrants MAID or not.
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Sure, go ahead and pretend there’s no nuance and phrase it that way.
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I watched a documentary about MAID in Canada and in a European country (where they allow MAID for depression) for a philosophy of law class. One of the people in the story was a young woman who was in the process of applying for MAID because she was suicidal. By the end of the documentary she had been approved but had chosen not to go through with it yet. She was keeping her approval in her back pocket while attending counselling as provided to her by the process.
She said having the approval made her feel a lot better, like she was back in control of her life.
I think it’s important to design a process like this where you can always back out, and you always retain control.
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You talk them down as many times as you can but some people will still jump in front of that subway car and ruin a few people’s lives.
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True, but enough do act upon it that it’s a big issue. When hope dies is when people die. The biggest problem is at provincial levels because they’re the ones who decide what mental healthcare is paid for … and right now it’s very little. Usually only psychiatrists, but not psychologists, social workers, or any other mental health specialists. Those are all out-of-pocket and it’s expensive. Nevermind remote regions who often don’t have any.
This is not on the feds because they don’t control healthcare. The provinces do, and when you’ve got provincial leaders who care more about giving away tax dollars to big business than caring for the people, dying by MAID becomes an easy solution to a provincial greed problem.
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I didn’t justify the use of MAiD. I just explained why it’s being used by poor people.
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Canada has always had a pathetic budget to fund biomedical research, because government assumed the US would pay the bills and we just buy the drugs.
Now, the US budget is zero, and we are paying hundreds of billions for drugs we should be making locally. This amplified under Trudeau and Carney, because CDN voters don’t care. Carbon tax was the priority.
More than likely depression isn’t the mental health condition this targets.
However you need the recommending and preforming doctor to sign off on it and be deemed able to consent the day of.
If you were suicidal the day they go to do it then you’d be disqualified.
It sucks for dementia patients because they can’t sign off “when my mind goes”. They have to do it before then.
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Dying on your own terms isn’t suicidal in the sense of mental illness/depression.
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That is a massive over-simplification. MAID gives people the ability to die on their own terms.
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