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oliwarner 10 hours ago

This evil Track 2 still requires that a recipient of MAID have "grievous and irremediable medical condition". It requires informed consent and primary capacity. It's not a law to bump off demented old people.

Limiting euthanasia to people with imminently terminal conditions is how you keep people in pain. The very best palliative care can still accompany suffering beyond anything a well and able person can begin to perceive.

Mental healthcare and social care and all these perpetually under-funded margins do need to be improved. MAID is not the preventative healthcare that we all need throughout our lives, but we need to be honest about the balance. Is it worse to end life prematurely for the "wrong" reasons, or to make someone suffer for the "right" reasons? This is dirty ethics. Get out the way and let people decide for themselves.