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14 19 hours ago

The vast majority of people choosing maid are those who enter hospice and wish to go peacefully before their terminal illness degrades their life to a state of loss of bodily control and pain.

JoshPurtell 19 hours ago | parent [-]

34% are between 18 and 65

clipsy 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Being between 18 and 65 does not mean you're in good health, sadly.

jmacd 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The median age for MAID recipients is over 77.

JoshPurtell 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

50% is not a vast majority, so that's a red herring

johnnienaked an hour ago | parent [-]

50% can be a massive majority if there is a plethora of opinions

HardCodedBias 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Both can be true, I think.

jmye 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What does that have to do with the post you replied to? Is your implication that young people can’t enter hospice or have terminal illness? Or are we just quoting random statistics without any regard to relevance whatsoever?