MAiD should be delayed, IMO, until multiple mental health professionals weigh in.
MAiD should be delayed, IMO, until multiple mental health professionals weigh in.
I think they're just asserting that they should be properly assessed for that psychiatric condition before euthanasia. That goes for any condition: they want to have at least tried courses of treatment that might fix the problem.
This is complicated by the fact that some psychiatric conditions make themselves difficult to treat. They compel the patient to avoid treatment. This is a thorny ethical issue under ordinary circumstances, and even more so when the outcome is terminal.
If the patient believes that their condition is debilitating enough to merit ending their life, it is a matter of law that they should at least have to have a doctor's affirmation that it it has not responded to the standard of care. That means treating a psychiatric condition on a par with physiological ones.
I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I know what poor is like, and it is still no reason to end your life. Took me 10 years to build marketable skills but I eventually became a bay area home owner.
Can everyone do that? Probably not. You can still win from a bad starting hand in life if you are simply more stubborn than everyone else.
Also dead cockroaches is still better conditions than a lot of people in third world countries get.