Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?

• BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do you imagine that would work?

  I live in a country that allows for euthanasia and it’s not like you just walk into a doctor’s office and ask for a suicide pill. It’s a long process involving multiple doctors and psychological assessments.

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  • ptu@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably for budget reasons. Someone comes up with an idea that the state should cut spending on the sick and elderly and start campaigning about how we should be focusing healthcare on only the fit and the strong to save the nation. Then we just need to make the patriot pill easily available and remind sick people of how big of a burden they are.

    I know, that was a bit far fetched and personally I think the terminally ill should have a way to leave with dignity instead of jumping off bridges or driving into oncoming traffic.

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    • BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Someone comes up with an idea that the state should cut spending on the sick and elderly and start campaigning about how we should be focusing healthcare on only the fit and the strong

      That’s already the case with private health insurance.

      I think the terminally ill should have a way to leave with dignity instead of jumping off bridges or driving into oncoming traffic.

      Where I live euthanasia is available in case of “suffering without chance of improvement”, which includes mental health issues in very rare cases (and only after every treatment option has been exhausted).

      The last few years there has been some discussion to allow for euthanasia for people who feel they have “completed their life”. As in: elderly who don’t want to spend their last few years in an old peoples home wearing adult diapers slowly withering away. They had a good life, they feel like there is nothing left for them to do on this earth and just want a dignified death on their own terms. There is something to be said for that.

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  • netvor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s not forget that there are people who love simplifying regulations. (And they even have significant influence nowadays in the EU. 😞 )

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