I donât think assisted suicide is dystopian, I think itâs incredibly progressive and I wish it was more widely available. We give our pets more dignity in death than our loved ones and it sucks. The fact that weâll keep a corpse animated for years just because we canât let go is pretty fucking dystopian though.
My greats fear isnât to die in an accident, itâs to barely survive an accident. To be kept alive but with no quality of life and in constant pain, thatâs not life, thatâs hell.
I donât want people in that situation to be euthanized, i just want them to be given the choice, because that is what i would want
I donât like it because, as a person with chronic mental illness, itâs legitimizing me committing suicide rather than learning to cope with my symptoms. I already think too much about how nice itâll be to be dead and not having to worry about dealing with my symptoms. If one day I decided that my life was no longer bearable, whatâs the practical difference between me making an attempt on my own life that allegedly needs to be urgently stopped, and me going through months of paperwork and evaluations to do the same thing? If suicide is wrong, if we shouldnât use a permanent solution for a temporary problem, then why should we turn it into a medical procedure? It feels dystopian because the medical industry, in my case, would be throwing up its hands and saying âyou know what, youâre right, youâre completely broken and thereâs no possible way to fix you. Letâs just kill you instead.â
Canada has made MAID available to people who only have mental illnesses or addictions. The mask has slipped.
What youâre referring to is called genocide. I donât think Iâve ever heard of anyone promote euthanasia as a solution to depression, or any disability, outside fascism â and fuck those assholes. Their opinions are psychopathic and irrelevant.
This isnât about you. Euthanasia is about personal freedom and choice. Itâs about enabling the people who have terminal illnesses, and are guaranteed a slow and painful death, the ability to choose a painless death on their own terms. Watching my father die of dementia is what I imagine hell would be like. Forced to live in a prison of your own mind, unable to remember anyone or anything, or what happened a minute ago, for x number of years until you forget how to swallow, then die of pneumonia. Thatâs not something Iâm willing to live through, and Iâd prefer to choose to die a few years earlier to avoid it. The opposition to euthanasia directly causes millions of people to suffer needlessly. It removes their freedom and choice.
If thatâs the case, then why does Canada allow people only with mental illnesses and addictions to seek out MAID? And how do you know for sure that this isnât going to expand as a cost-cutting measure throughout any healthcare system that enables it?
It is genocide.
