https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/ archive: https://archive.is/adDZ3 opinions on the article? what are your thoughts on euthanasia?
(thanks for the archive link, btw)
Bauman predicted this somehow.
Globalisation is achieved, there is no where anymore to throw society's unwanted rubbish (I mean actual garbage, pollution, and inapt people). Before you could dump unwanted stuff and people in the colonies, then in the third world. We now are living in a closed system. Our rich societies must devise ways to get rid of the unwanted, since the cost of keeping it inside is rising. Hence euthanasia.
A good review from lit.salon that made me want to read another book on the topic (written by of one of the USA supreme court juge) https://www.lit.salon/reviews/OL13667436W/bJ89qo0DmzDo3XsKRPK9/A-comfort-read-for-the-holiday-season
> The law currently states that any sign of refusal “must be respected”; at the same time, if the clinician determines that expressions of resistance are “behavioural symptoms” of a patient’s illness, and not necessarily an actual objection to receiving MAID, the euthanasia can continue anyway.
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8 days ago :
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>>7231
Agreed, when MAID, etc first became a mainstream topic (to me, anyway, like 5-10 years ago), I felt like it was should obviously be permitted. I mean, if I was a terminal cancer patient, in the throes of an agonizing death, I would more than likely want to get put down. Going to die anyway.
But, since we are not all model terminal patients (lucid, in pain, imminent death, etc), the obvious complications rerouted the whole idea and spawned state sanctioned class cullings.
The most obvious reason, to me now, to oppose MAID is that suicide is virtually always possible (even in the hospital) and putting the syringe in someone else's hands, especially when that someone else is a nameless, faceless bureaucrat, will inevitably lead to its corruption and hijacking of aims (dignity or easing of pain turns to expediency).
Like organ donation, a good idea in theory but not one I'm willing to entrust to the current bureaucratic structure
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Like organ donation, a good idea in theory but not one I'm willing to entrust to the current bureaucratic structure
Agreed, when MAID, etc first became a mainstream topic (to me, anyway, like 5-10 years ago), I felt like it was should obviously be permitted. I mean, if I was a terminal cancer patient, in the throes of an agonizing death, I would more than likely want to get put down. Going to die anyway.
But, since we are not all model terminal patients (lucid, in pain, imminent death, etc), the obvious complications rerouted the whole idea and spawned state sanctioned class cullings.
The most obvious reason, to me now, to oppose MAID is that suicide is virtually always possible (even in the hospital) and putting the syringe in someone else's hands, especially when that someone else is a nameless, faceless bureaucrat, will inevitably lead to its corruption and hijacking of aims (dignity or easing of pain turns to expediency).
Euthanasia would be justifiable in a genuinely socialist state in which the objectives of the government were aligned with the welfare of the populace. Under capitalism, however, the perverse incentive to kill off unproductive citizens makes it extremely risky.