This is the evangelical Christian myth that is being pushed. Christians do this because they believe there is virtue in suffering.
That is why grandma must choke to death on her vomit while everybody watches and sobs instead of having a celebration of life party with loved ones and then comfortably drifting off to cardiac arrest in her sleep.
All instances that these Christians bring up in Canada where it appears that MAID is being pushed on someone who doesn’t need it turns out to be a nothing story. No one is seriously being sent to their death because they are poor or require expensive care. This is a fear that is being manufactured so that grandma can die painfully. In Christ name amen.
Man I wish it was a nothing story. A friend of mine had MAID suggested to her after she spent only a couple days in the hospital for having a suicidal episode (mental health, long story but she’s doing much better now… so why the fuck was it brought up after only two days there?!). Guess that’s the result of my province’s healthcare being gutted like a fish. Thanks conservative government!
MAID is important, don’t get me wrong. People can keep their fucking gods out of healthcare in general. But saying that mistakes aren’t being made with it is ignoring a problem.
Fetishizing pain is a defense against it. Better to deal with it in other ways.
I’m not saying you don’t know that, just pointing it out.
This is not what the documentary is about though?
It’s about countries refusing to help disabled people who want to live because they tell them to choose assisted dying.
No this is exactly what I’m referring to. These instances where “countries are refusing to help people and instead want to kill them” is the fake fear they are trying to instill. It simply isn’t happening.
There have been extremely publicized instances where it has appeared that way like in Canada, where a rogue nurse went strictly against protocol and did that. They then fired that nurse. Too late though, because hundreds of opportunists like these documentary makers jumped on that story to retell it in a scarier way.
That instance and other similar and rare instances are being made to appear much bigger and more sinister so that they can manufacture a conspiracy theory for people to cling onto. That euthanasia cannot be allowed because it’s going to be used for evil instead of its intended use.
Edit: it appears from your account name and profile that you have a vested interest in this issue and are trying to push the same agenda as these religious radicals. I’m not going to engage any further.
yeah I don’t see them showing the countries were taking care of people better before it was an option. All the same I do prefer the places where its not allowed to be brought up in an individual context except by the patient but the option is available and legal.
Yes of course you don’t seem them showing the countries taking care of people. Why would they show you something that runs counter to their argument and agenda? Look critically at this and which groups are behind the push to force the suffering of those that are terminally ill.
Maybe you would like to have your body and/or mind progressively fall apart to prove your “machismo”, but you have zero right to dictate how others deal with their terminal suffering. Mazel tov on your preference.
Perhaps, but my mother has gone and said outright that if she’s a vegetable in pain when she’s old she wants to just die. My great aunt is in a similar situation and has said the exact same thing. Law forbids it though.
It’s ridiculous. We allow our pets to have a more humane death than we allow ourselves. It’s extremely unethical to let someone suffer until their body shuts down when there’s nothing that can save them.
It’s like abortion. If you disagree with it, don’t do it.
Capitalism is a clear and present danger to people with disabilities.
Assisted dying is just a way for people to try and mitigate some of the problems inherent in capitalism.
