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    Drei Tage vor seinem medizinisch unterstützten Tod denkt dieser Mann aus Alberta über „sein Recht auf Sterben“ nach.


    Drei Tage vor seinem medizinisch unterstützten Tod denkt dieser Mann aus Alberta über „sein Recht auf Sterben“ nach.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/3-days-before-his-medically-assisted-death-this-alberta-man-is-reflecting-on-his-right-to-die/

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    2. india2wallst on

      This is a very delicate topic but the conditions sound debilitating and a living nightmare. We all take good health for granted and hopefully become more grateful for what we have.

    3. buttfarts7 on

      Non medically recoverable conditions that turn every waking moment to hell are a valid reason to reach for this.

      Telling somebody in that condition „it is immoral for you to seek this type of relief“ is a shitty stance to take.

      „You must endure this hell until nature takes you so my conscience feels comfortable“

    4. THCDonut on

      Friendly reminder that the alternative is suicide, an act that tends to be spur of the moment and in complete isolation. Compared to MAID, a drawn out process that takes a decent amount of time and that lets you die surrounded with loved ones.

      There isn’t really a third choice in the matter and I can’t morally, religiously, or logically support suicide over MAID. If you can, then you can, but to me it seems a lot of people think it’s MAID or life, it’s actually MAID or suicide.

    6. RubberTeddy on

      My life is mine and no one elses. What I do with it, provided I am not harming anyone else, is mine to do. No one’s beliefs need have any say in that.

    7. Motor-Region-1011 on

      Anyone should be ablen to commit sucide at anytime… as people do. But we should always get help with it so we can die in painless peaceful way.

    8. MobiusOne_FoxTwo on

      It seems like a major concern is that MAID is being presented as an option to people, or at least there is a perception that that is the case, and the response is to make MAID harder to get?

      Am I missing something? Can’t we make rules associated with when or how MAID ia permitted to be *suggested* by medical professionals while still maintaining its accessibility?

      Are doctors actually advising people to end their lives without the patient’s initial inquiry?

      It feels like (key phrase, „feels like“) the big barrier to MAID is that people are uncomfortable with it, even though they aren’t the ones seeking it in the first place. Seems really strange to me.

    9. JohnAMcdonald on

      I have no issue with this. I mostly have issue with MAID being used for conditions that are inherently impossible to reliably or validly diagnose with an inherently uncertain medical trajectory.

    10. Ace0Knaves on

      There’s a history of Alzheimer’s in my family.

      I refuse to lose myself, if and when I get diagnosed I’m checking myself out.

      How violently that is, is up to you and those you elect

    11. SchmitzBitz on

      I suffer from a terminal condition that is eventually going to make my QoL absolutely suck. Between the pain and losing control of my body while maintaining my faculties (unless the family tradition of dementia kicks in first) and the suffering my family will go through watching me die slowly isn’t worth anything in this world.
      I have comfort in knowing that short of a medical miracle curing me I can take control over my last days. It’s a discussion I’ve had with my entire „team“ of doctors and family – when that time comes I am happy to be able to make that decision, or in the case that I can’t make that call because I’m a non-commincative lump of meat relying on a host of machines to keep me ‚alive‘ that the person who knows,understands my wishes can advocate for my ‚death plan‘.

    12. metalcore_mommy on

      I don’t care if anybody hates me for saying this, this is a topic very close to my heart. I absolutely don’t think there should be more restrictions on MAID, I think its honestly a really good thing, and I’ll really never understand what issue someone could have with it.
      Watching people suffer for a long time and wither away into a shell of themselves, up until their inevitable death is absolutely miserable. I can only begin to imagine what experiencing it is like. You absolutely deserve the right to choose to die, and getting to have a date and a painless death of your choosing really makes it an easier situation for the person and their family.

      Being against this is just selfish and privileged, nobody deserves to suffer and this is the better way for everyone involved. More people would see that too if there was less stigma. Cases like this shouldn’t be viewed as suicide at all. This is a person faced with a terrible situation, exercising what little power they have over it and that should be their damn right.

    13. KinKeener on

      We just laid my father to rest on friday. He was dying of liver failure, and was just coming to a time of life where he would need to be in a home within the next year. Growing up, he always told me he would never be in a home, and when mom passed 2 years ago, he started talking about just dissapearing. He had a stash of medications from mom’s cancer treatment that he would sometimes mention. Something he could take to end it all. So we gave him the option of MAID….

      MAID gave my dad the certainty that we as a family could support him in his choice to leave this earth. This gave us additional time with him in some of the best headspace he had ever been in. They gave my dad the option to die respectfully, in the presence of the people who loved him most.

      Its too fresh, and I dont have all the words right now.

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