Canada

It also includes a man whose application “hearing loss,” and whose brother says he was “basically put to death.”

My grandmother was a painter and lost her vision. She was no longer able to do what she loved. In her last several years, every time we'd celebrate her birthday, she'd wonder why she was still alive. You can't look at MAiD requests simply, because every person has unique reasons that keep them going. Some people can bounce back from severe loss, and some cannot, or choose not to.

While I agree with a lot of points the article is making, I think we need to be calling for more critical review of MAiD applications, and increased oversight, not an outright reversal of the program. Those whom are applying due to lack of social safety nets need to be denied, and, most importantly, helped to find the resources required for them to be able to live a dignified and meaningful life if they so wish.

Since most people are woefully uninformed about what MAiD is and isn’t, I’ll post this here:

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html

““I’ve come to realize,” wrote Appel, “that euthanasia in Canada represents the cynical endgame of social provisioning with the brutal logic of late-stage capitalism — we’ll starve you of the funding you need to live a dignified life [. . .] and if you don’t like it, why don’t you just kill yourself?””

Sums up how that would go in America, too.

How high are you right meow?