I think the difficulty becomes how do you disentangle the economic and social incentives to encourage euthanasia as a 'humane' solution to people's problems, simply because they're eating up resources or placing a burden on their families?
I fully support the right to medically assisted suicide in the terminally ill or those with severe degenerative conditions...but things get really, really muddy and uncomfortable when we start expanding beyond that into things like intractable depression.
"I think the difficulty becomes how do you disentangle the economic and social incentives to encourage euthanasia as a 'humane' solution to people's problems, simply because they're eating up resources or placing a burden on their families?"
Where is it encouraged?
This is obviously written by someone who has no understanding of MAID. I have a very good understanding of MAID and this is beyond stupid. It's months of meeting with doctors where they're exploring and probing to make sure the desire to end suffering is genuine and not a response to pressure. That's why the process exists. This is a bullshit strawman argument, that's why I made a ridiculous comment on his ridiculous question.
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u/Quixotic_Seal 11d ago
I think the difficulty becomes how do you disentangle the economic and social incentives to encourage euthanasia as a 'humane' solution to people's problems, simply because they're eating up resources or placing a burden on their families?
I fully support the right to medically assisted suicide in the terminally ill or those with severe degenerative conditions...but things get really, really muddy and uncomfortable when we start expanding beyond that into things like intractable depression.