(September 1, 2023 at 6:29 pm)zwanzig Wrote: There's also the consideration that a lot of cases where people might want assisted suicide is due to a lack of care or access to care to begin with.
Doesn't it feel....gross, to let poor people with mental/physical health issues be killed and disposed of rather than doing anything that might actually alleviate their suffering or improve their quality of life?
Why don't we try a not for profit system of medical and mental health services FIRST before we start just agreeing, "Yeah that sucks. You WOULD be better off dead."
There is some suffering that just can't be fixed. If you don't think so visit some hospice units.
bold: The individual gets to make the request/choice for euthanasia and the process will only proceed if that individual is found mentally competent by the powers that be. No one in the process gets to make the statement in bold.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
