• SiliconDon@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    California and Canada have similar populations and both allow medically assisted suicide. Canada last year performed this on 20x more people. It’s well documented that many would prefer treatment to death but it isn’t provided as an option due to cost. This is eugenics

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. Medically-assisted suicide cannot be offered to anyone who doesn’t have all of the health care they need without bankrupting themselves. Therefore I don’t think it’s ethical to ever offer it in a country where health care is a financial transaction for the patient.

      Otherwise the government might as well be handing the patient a huge bill in the left hand and a gun in the right.