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The problem with MAID is statistically significant.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/some-health-care-workers-...

But in Ontario, more than three quarters of people euthanized when their death wasn’t imminent required disability support before their death in 2023, according to data from a slideshow presentation by the province’s chief coroner, shared with AP by both a researcher and a doctor on condition of anonymity due to its sensitive nature.

Of people killed when they weren’t terminally ill, nearly 29% lived in the poorest parts of Ontario, compared with 20% of the province’s general population living in the most deprived communities, the data show.

Eugenics 2.0.

  When care becomes killing, we'll have no incentive to save. The weak and the poor are rushed to their graves

> But in Ontario, more than three quarters of people euthanized when their death wasn’t imminent required disability support before their death in 2023

conditions meriting euthanasia will also tend to be disabling yes

The story here isn't about problems with MAID, it's about inadequate support for the poor and disabled. Even then, your link is about those patients requesting it, not about it being forced on them.

It's unsurprising to me that someone with few resources and irreversible, painful disability, but lacking an imminent death, would request MAID. I don't see how this is an argument against MAID.

What incentive does the government have to increase disability support payments to appropriate levels when the alternative (keeping payments inadequate to force them to kill themselves) is much cheaper for the government and continuously kills people who would otherwise advocate for an increase to disability support payments?

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