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““I’ve come to realize,” wrote Appel, “that euthanasia in Canada represents the cynical endgame of social provisioning with the brutal logic of late-stage capitalism — we’ll starve you of the funding you need to live a dignified life [. . .] and if you don’t like it, why don’t you just kill yourself?””
Sums up how that would go in America, too.
This is why Canadians need to talk about this stuff. Some MAiD recipients are being driven to suicide by an underfunded and ignored social safety net. That's horrible. Our society is rich enough that we should be able to provide a decent quality of life to people with disabilities.
We have a national belief that we have strong supports for those who need it. That doesn't seem to be the case.
It’s mostly the same in America - I have an invisible disability or two and it has been next to impossible to get access to the social safety net. The only viable avenue, if you aren’t visibly disabled, is to hire an attorney to work with the system.
That takes an humongous effort that not everyone can sustain on their own.
Why aren’t these systems activated at the point of diagnosis, for example? How many gaps are there in the safety net, really?
IMO I don't ever see them allowing you to stop being a consumer especially not in such a way that makes them look bad. Best can be done is a cop shooting you when you have a mental health crisis. I also could see it being a genuine population crisis if it weren't even more strict/bureaucracy-hell than MAiD.
Then of course, there will always be more people pushing back against programs like this than there ever will be for actually improving living conditions. People just don't want to see or hear any reference to death, continued suffering is a lot more indirect and nebulous and thus ignorable.