Right to die for terminally ill

[Anonymous]

Would we ever pass such a law? Is this to lighten the burden of the patient or their family or the social healthcare budget?


"Terminally ill people with less than six months to live will have right to choose procedure after approval from doctors and panel"


https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/20/assisted-dying-law-england-and-wales-bill-passed?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social_img&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1750426353

[Anonymous]

Its not about health care or the family, its about suffering. My inlaw suffered for years with early onset dementia. The last few years were horrible and no way to live. If I am terminal, I don't want to suffer and want the choice. Nor do I want to be in a nursing home for years, misreable.

[Anonymous]

There is a reason MAID is used and preferred largely by wealthy white men in places where it is allowed. They are the only ones that can have the confidence that they’ll control the process.

[Anonymous]

Authorized in 11 states and DC:
https://compassionandchoices.org/states-where-medical-aid-in-dying-is-authorized/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its not about health care or the family, its about suffering. My inlaw suffered for years with early onset dementia. The last few years were horrible and no way to live. If I am terminal, I don't want to suffer and want the choice. Nor do I want to be in a nursing home for years, misreable.

How is someone with dementia supposed to have the competence to choose?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a reason MAID is used and preferred largely by wealthy white men in places where it is allowed. They are the only ones that can have the confidence that they’ll control the process.

Uh, cite please. I know of two elderly WOMEN who have availed themselves of MAID due to debilitating conditions. Believe me, they were in control of the process.

[Anonymous]

Its wrong to ask someone to kill you. You can refuse treatment or kill yourself. Putting that responsibility on another person is unnecessary and wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its not about health care or the family, its about suffering. My inlaw suffered for years with early onset dementia. The last few years were horrible and no way to live. If I am terminal, I don't want to suffer and want the choice. Nor do I want to be in a nursing home for years, misreable.

How is someone with dementia supposed to have the competence to choose?

+1 There’s a reason that this issue first started gaining traction with ALS patients back in the days of Dr. Kevorkian. It’s one of the few diseases so horrifying and debilitating that people choose to die, but it doesn’t affect your mental status.

[Anonymous]

Frankly, everyone should have the autonomy and right to die whenever they wish. Some people simply have far more miserable lives and there's no way to improve them/no desire for themselves to improve. Not everyone reaches an earth shattering, enlightenment or joy in simply existing and that needs to be respected when they would like to leave this world behind.

[Anonymous]

I am all in favor of euthanasia. Psychologically speaking, very few will avail themselves of that option but it needs to be available for people in terrible physical and/or psychological pain.

Also, we need to have a discussion on advance euthanasia directives for people with dementia because by the time they suffer horrors they’re not in their right mind to consent. We need to have laws allowing euthanasia for patients who want decided this years in advance, when a certain threshold of debilitating symptoms has been reached, even if the patient can’t confirm their wishes again.

[Anonymous]

I have chronic illness that has really ruined my life and I have thought about this topic a lot. I think people should be allowed to decide when enough it enough. No one knows your body better than yourself. It should be a right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its wrong to ask someone to kill you. You can refuse treatment or kill yourself. Putting that responsibility on another person is unnecessary and wrong.

YOU MORON, PEOPLE WHO ARE TERMINAL OFTEN CANNOT MOVE.

[Anonymous]

I can think of nothing more satisfying for a person with a terminal illness than sitting in a glass-paneled room overlooking the Swiss Alps, taking medication, and just falling into an eternal sleep.

I'd take my family & close friends, have a few days of good meals and wine and enjoyable conversation (to the extent this is physically possible), and then exit the earth.

How is this less preferrable than suffering for months or years in a hospital or some under-staffed memory care center?

[Anonymous]

I’m okay with it in principle, but the slippery slope is real and very concerning.

Canada will be allowing it for people with mental illness, so not just for those who are terminally ill, and is exploring allowing it for “mature minors”.

Apparently they removed the previously required 10-day waiting period, and patients are now being euthanized the same day they ask for it.

Some of the cases listed in this article are disturbing. https://theconversation.com/ontario-chief-coroner-reports-raise-concerns-that-maid-policy-and-practice-focus-on-access-rather-than-protection-253917

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m okay with it in principle, but the slippery slope is real and very concerning.

Canada will be allowing it for people with mental illness, so not just for those who are terminally ill, and is exploring allowing it for “mature minors”.

Apparently they removed the previously required 10-day waiting period, and patients are now being euthanized the same day they ask for it.

Some of the cases listed in this article are disturbing. https://theconversation.com/ontario-chief-coroner-reports-raise-concerns-that-maid-policy-and-practice-focus-on-access-rather-than-protection-253917

The "slippery slope" concept is a myth in my opinion, that people use because everyone always brainwashes us that life has to be prolonged as much as possible and at pretty much all costs. If you're worried that someone is going to push their old man into signing euthanasia papers to collect the inheritance, or that an angsty teen will want to commit suicide when they might have a relatively happy life instead if they get treatment... I don't know what to tell you. There will always be what-ifs, but the paperwork and processes around euthanasia are so burdensome, I don't think many people will make the wrong choices, or be forced into choices they don't want. Right now most people in terrible pain who want to die do NOT have access to euthanasia around the world. Their needs are more important than the few that might get it when it's not needed.