> It's the utter failure of the welfare state from catching people sinking that's to blame.
You can blame policies and programs, but in reality the issue has always been the value of human life.
If human life isn't valuable then ending it is easy.
You can blame policies and programs, but in reality the issue has always been the value of human life.
If human life isn't valuable then ending it is easy.
Forcing people to die in pain, misery, and utterly debased is a misplacement of values in my opinion.
And this is often than not a symptom of capitalist valuation. The value of a life is too often viewed as economic [1].
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354671644_VAluing_L...
I think this is because we often see pain and misery as "bad things" that must be avoided at all cost. This tends to lead to the assumption that people who have pain and misery in their lives don't have "good lives" and that the only real option then is to end it.
Pain and misery have purpose and meaning. It can cause people to look beyond themselves. Some very beautiful things have come from people who were in deep pain.
An old person had late stage skeleton cancer, extreme pain, drugs didn't help. He wanted to die. The health care system kept him alive against his will for as long as they could
In that case I suppose the reason was instead covering one's own back.
Permanent never ending deep pain and you're old and just waiting to die, that's different.
Or Alzheimers.
> we often see pain and misery as "bad things" that must be avoided at all cost ... only real option then is to end it.
I never heard anyone say anything remotely like that. I believe you're mistaken?
Did you hear someone say that or you're hypothesizing
With that said, the doctors in the article seem crazy, and this: “MAiD is the new society safety net”
It requires, if he is a doctor, that he gives approval to your choice, and in compassion's name try to relieve you from the burdens of guilt and doubt you might have from your choice.
It doesn't just mean accepting that you say "my life is not worth living", it requires them to say, "Yes, your life is not worth living".
Opponents said this was a can of worms, and it seems harder and harder to deny from what's happening in Canada.
(And to repeat, terminal sedation, treatment that hastens death as an unfortunate side effect of trying to relieve pain, as well as refusal of life-prolonging care, is defended even by hardline opponents to euthanasia laws).