Comment by mitthrowaway2
3 days ago
MAID being inappropriately offered to people who haven't expressed interest in it, and also being extended widely to people without terminal illness, has certainly become a controversy in Canada.
https://thewalrus.ca/assisted-dying/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/doesnt-line-up-mps-c...
Why should only terminally ill people get this choice? A 16 year old can decide who to kill in the army but apparently they (and we) aren't competent to choose whether to take one's own life.
I don't necessarily agree with this take but I'd say it's probably because we're only willing to let people who are close to death "make a mistake."
Eg maybe a 16 year old who wants to end their otherwise healthy life might, 20 years later, be glad they didn't.
That seems less likely with someone who is almost certainly going to die (and probably painfully to boot) "soon".
> maybe a 16 year old who wants to end their otherwise healthy life might, 20 years later, be glad they didn't.
Equally, they might spend decades of their life in misery wishing that they had been able to.
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