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I need you to unpack the MAID opinion more please, I find opposition to it fascinating and profoundly frustrating.
Because you don't trust the government, you think that if I'm diagnosed with incurable and fatal cancer, I have to suffer a prolonged and painful death because you don't trust the government? If you don't trust the government, you don't ever have to consent to MAID, even if an idiot who works for the government suggests it to you as an option.
The fact that anti MAID people think restricting the freedom of other people to choose has never made sense to me.
I strongly recommend reading this article about the end of life care that doctors receive, versus the general population: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/
Certainly, happy to.
My belief is that once MAID becomes an option, the government immediately and irrevocably takes the approach of funneling all its resources towards MAID-ing people, as opposed to resolving the underlying issues behind the issue (as it is almost always the cheaper option).
For example, we have had numerous scandals in Canada where the government has offered MAID as a response to:
The first fairly clearly falls under the domain of the government; the third falls under the government's responsibility, as they take roughly $8000 CAD per person in taxes to make such a garbage system. The second is less obvious, and I would agree the connection is tenuous; however, I'm fairly certain that the reason people feel so isolated and atomized is due to the cost of living crisis, which leads to a situation where most people are working huge hours and are just too exhausted to try to meet people after a long day.
The government of Canada has made statements that indicate that they want to expand MAID to people suffering from mental illness; they have also made statements that indicate that they want to expand the eligibility of MAID to people suffering from mental illnesses that do not permit consent (for example, schizophrenia or alzheimers). This strikes me as a worrying combination.
Note that I don't have any complaints about someone who is in indescribable pain choosing to end their own life; I just don't believe that the government should have any say in permitting it or not. Honestly, if I were to put a safeguard on it, I'd say that anyone who claims MAID can choose any public minister who receives it simultaneously to them (I realize the chances of this being implemented is less than 0; I just don't want a situation where the government is encouraged or permitted to destroy its own citizens). I'd be worried that the government would inflict circumstances on individuals who it should be supporting in an attempt to remove them.
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