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[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 34 points 8 months ago

Why is there always such a shitshow when it comes to these laws? In Switzerland we have EXIT which is also assisted suicide. Nobody cares that it exists, it is just a reasonable system.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 25 points 8 months ago

Because the conditions applied always seem to be revolving around removing undesirables within Canada. This example makes people fear that Canadian hospital workers will begin pressuring drug addict patients to kill themselves, or even darker, signing them up for euthanasia without their knowing or consent.

[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 months ago

I am certain your examples are quite impossible. Neither pressure or involuntary signups.

[-] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

It might be impossible where you are from (because it's better implemented or controlled there, I don't know) but in Canada our health care has turned to shit (our healthcare system was struggling pre-pandemic and is now even worse). There were instances of First Nation mothers being forced or strongly encouraged immediately after giving birth (when they aren't of sound mind) to be sterilized. If something as horrendous as that can happen, it's not much of a stretch to believe that bad acting health care workers might try to force people who are vulnerable to agree to euthanasia.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canadian-veterans-assisted-suicide

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/report-uncovers-forced-sterilization-in-quebec-1.6663340

[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The veterans don’t seem to be such a huge case as the headline suggests. It clearly isn’t systematic and the individual cases sound more like frontline workers who made mistakes instead of malicious intent.

And the sterilizations are clearly systematic racism and not a way to save the apparently fragile healthcare system.

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