Canada

[rant] in Canada, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), for people with unbearable suffering, is indeed a great benefit. This ~~fucking~~ professor at McGill University, is trying to confuse this fact by calling this "suicide" or "death as a benefit" which sounds like a contradiction. Well, ~~fucking~~ professor : no it is not a contradiction, and anyone who has seen someone suffering enough or anyone who has suffered enough knows that, at some point, while suffering enough, death is in fact a fucking benefit.

I'm not very impressed with this opinion article.

In the section titled "the problem with advance consent" it spends four paragraphs talking about things unrelated to advance consent, and then just says "what if the patient would feel differently now that they have more experience".

Idon't want our society to be killing people because they live in poverty that gives them unbearable health issues. But we shouldn't be preventing all people with unbearable health issues from dying with dignity while we sort that out, and we shouldn't be denying those in poverty the same right. We need to eliminate poverty. Maybe there is inadequate oversight and accountability of maid but the article doesn't make any suggestions. This article feels like a person dogmatically opposed to maid throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks