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MAID is a huge bummer. MAID is one of those things that doctors can't really discuss, because you'll get attacked for it. A lot of Canadian doctors are silenced about this topic. It bears similarity to the avoidance doctors have with speaking (anything at all) about COVID - they're worried about their jobs.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-troubling-debate-ov...

The government is being quite clear about this. They'd rather you just die than waste tax dollars.

I don't even like calling it MAID. It's more accurate to call it government sanctioned suicide/homicide

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It seems you missed the point of the OG article? It's not about MAiD or the ethicality of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms but about systemic, community-wide failures to help those in need across Canada. The MAiD anecdotes just show how bad it can get.

What is the difference between MAID and government sanctioned suicide? As someone who doesn't follow the topic, government sanctioned suicide is how I've thought of it and I've never encountered the acronym MAID before this.

Government sanctioned homicide is weird phrasing because the patient has agency and is the one making the decision.

I couldn't read beyond the first few paragraphs. What a horrible situation for that poor man whose family wouldn't let him die. Bastards!

The way they talk about his "baseline" depression getting substantially worse. Then they talk about how they should be making the decisions after taking care of him for 50 years. So he's been suffering since he was 12 and his support system doesn't seem to treat him as an adult who can make his own choices? It's nothing acute. It's something he's been struggling with for half a century that sometimes gets better for a while at best. I don't know the full story, but the quotes from the family make me really uncomfortable. And apparently this is the best argument the author can find against the practice.

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