I'm afraid your positive experience doesn't counteract the news stories and statistics I've seen that show that MAiD has a coercive aspect to its functioning.
Doctors shouldn't be able to bring it up unprompted for one, nor should mental health be a legitimate reason.
There is a balance of harms though. Sure there's potential for any assisted dying arrangements to be abused. But the status quo is abusive too. It shouldn't be beyond us to come up with dome robust safeguards for this to arrive at a situation that genuinely minimises harm on both sides.
Because there are negative outlier cases doesn't make the program bad.
Disagree that mentally unwell people shouldn't be able to use MAID. People with incurable depression, schizophrenia, or severe BDP, shouldn't be forced to live to assuage others guilt
From a personal perspective, i absolutely agree. Although, having spoken to a few people with disabilities about this recently, there is a lot of concern about this decision. The 'Canadian model' has been negatively cited quite a few times.
Yes Canada initially started with dying in the foreseeable future, at a later date they introduced a new bill removing the foreseeable. This opened up a can of worms and they are rightly worried.
I support terminally ill only. I don't believe we will go down the same route but understand the worry
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Sure, there are problems, but the program is overall good.
Doctors shouldn't be able to bring it up unprompted for one, nor should mental health be a legitimate reason.
Disagree that mentally unwell people shouldn't be able to use MAID. People with incurable depression, schizophrenia, or severe BDP, shouldn't be forced to live to assuage others guilt
It's pretty much the same everywhere it's introduced, it seems to fundamentally change the medical profession's relationship with death.
I support terminally ill only. I don't believe we will go down the same route but understand the worry