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That's fucked
California and Canada have similar populations and both allow medically assisted suicide. Canada last year performed this on 20x more people. It’s well documented that many would prefer treatment to death but it isn’t provided as an option due to cost. This is eugenics
Got a source for these numbers?
"In Canada, which has a smaller population than California, physicians or nurse practitioners directly ended the lives of 31,664 people between 2016 and 2021. That compares to just 3,344 in California."
This is an opinion piece article and I'm not sure where they're pulling numbers (I only had time to skim through it)
But if true, let's add a loose and relatively subjective term like "addiction" to the legislation and these numbers will go up.
Maybe this is how the government was planning to tackle the housing problem lol
That's a Postmedia Network owned paper. They've got a conservative bias, best known for that Tory rag the National Post.
I don't think I'd trust unsourced statistics from an opinion piece in a Postmedia Network paper myself.
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Both have state-provided rehab.
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I honestly think this would not be a bad way to go once I retire. Just develope a fentanyl addiction and move to Canada for a medically assisted OD. A lot better than dealing with the coming water wars and dying like an animal while desperately fighting for survival.
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This seems reasonable. Lucid only, there's a big talk about it, gernerally seems in-line with how other countries handle it. If you were slowly dying of rabies, prions, ebola, rat-lungworm, or other terrible maladies/injuries, I could see this being beneficial.
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