> patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness,
Why is anyone surprised? Did the people who planned out this program never visit a psych ward? They're chock full of homeless people in varying degrees of "I'd rather die than go back to the streets/shelter". Sad but it's how it is.
This thing turned into exactly the horror its critics were worried it would. Their concerns were so confidently dismissed from all sides, it was so easy to paint them as naive idealists or hardhearted religious weirdos or anything. They were right and now canada is at the forefront of a modern eugenics movement.
Why is assisted suicide programs the horror rather than the systemic effects that lead people with no terminal conditions to prefer death to possible living conditions?
Without assisted suicide being requested, those people will just be overlooked & ignored.
Instead of removing assisted suicide programs, we should consider them to be a societal feedback system regarding society's greatest failures.
> patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness,
Why is anyone surprised? Did the people who planned out this program never visit a psych ward? They're chock full of homeless people in varying degrees of "I'd rather die than go back to the streets/shelter". Sad but it's how it is.
This thing turned into exactly the horror its critics were worried it would. Their concerns were so confidently dismissed from all sides, it was so easy to paint them as naive idealists or hardhearted religious weirdos or anything. They were right and now canada is at the forefront of a modern eugenics movement.
Why is assisted suicide programs the horror rather than the systemic effects that lead people with no terminal conditions to prefer death to possible living conditions?
Without assisted suicide being requested, those people will just be overlooked & ignored.
Instead of removing assisted suicide programs, we should consider them to be a societal feedback system regarding society's greatest failures.
It's not "rather than" and there are plenty of signals other than the deaths of disabled people.
Like I said, those signals seem to be a lot easier to ignore.
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