Legalizing medically assisted suicide is fine. w/e

Forcing others to contribute to funding and carrying it out through taxes is not.

It should only be offered when patients ask for it. Some sick people are already depressed and feel like a burden we shouldn't put ideas in their heads.

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wvenable 19 hours ago | parent [-]

> Forcing others to contribute to funding and carrying it out through taxes is not.

How else is it supposed to work?

> Some sick people are already depressed and feel like a burden we shouldn't put ideas in their heads.

You sound like you think there isn't an entire system of checks and balances around this but, of course, there is.

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johnnienaked an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>how else is it supposed to work?

Just kill yourself the old fashioned way?

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arduanika 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> How else is it supposed to work?

Like literally any other good or service.

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wvenable 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think it's best that we keep any profit motive out of this. It certainly doesn't work for health care.

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arduanika 16 hours ago | parent [-]

This is not health care. Not in any sense that Hippocrates would cosign.

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BobaFloutist 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That really depends on how you define "harm", doesn't it?

	▲	arduanika 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's more in the oath than "do no harm". But if you want to just forget about the ancients, I can't stop you. Par for the course in a culture that wants to pull the plug on grandma.

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wvenable 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We consider it health care for our pets.

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greygoo222 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hippocrates didn't actually write the Hippocratic Oath, which, if this matters to you, also forbids abortion.

	▲	arduanika 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You are technically correct, sir. I guess that out of shame I should just go seek Canadian healthcare. On abortion -- that matters to a lot of people, and it's an outrage that they are forcibly taxed to pay for something they see as murder.

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tremon 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So... like sewage service, or the fire department?

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macinjosh 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People pay for the $5 pill themselves or find a tall, tall bridge.