Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate

• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It will be eventually, if we’re not careful

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So the slippery slope fallacy, got it.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not a fallacy. It literally happened in Canada.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It literally is a fallacy.

        And again, this is nothing like the protocols Canada has.

        You need to be terminally ill with less than 6 months to live, of sound mind, have the go-ahead from two unaffiliated doctors, and it needs to be reviewed and signed off by a judge.

        You’re advocating for real, horrific, suffering to continue because hypothetically the law could be changed in future in a way that could be bad.

        I’ve worked in care homes full of people who barely sleep, and spend their entire days in agony that you and I cannot even conceive of. They begged to die. They begged us to covertly kill them. But our job was to forcefully keep them alive against their will, prolonging their suffering for as long as possible. Seriously harrowing stuff.

        If you had seen that, day in day out, I doubt you’d have this “we need to make them suffer, because hypothetically in X years we could be like Canada, where some doctors made a recommendation they really shouldn’t have.”

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  • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not possible for that to happen in the UK without a further bill in Parliament. I believe in Canada the law has changed as a result of decisions by the courts.

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