re: 76 year old fatally shoots her husband in the hospital

It’s like the people who say “I don’t want to live past 80 bc I’ll have poor quality of life”. frick that, I want the option to live to 1000. Then when I’m ready, I’ll take myself out. Even most terminally ill have the strength to pull a trigger or connect a hose to the exhaust pipe.

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Well Canada is fricking retarded and shouldn’t be hailed as a standard of anything.

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Yeah, I’m not. I’m treating them as a cautionary example.

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But medical and pharmaceutical companies don’t get money from that. They profit from your suffering.

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The poster I responded to said in a medical setting, and Canadian medical companies are profiting from that, which is why private companies are advertising suicide services now.

You can wave it off as “but it’s Canada” all you want, but the reality is that if medically assisted suicide were legal here, it’d be profitable and advertised just the same.

As a libertarian minded person I still think such things should be legal, but we should also be careful what we wish for, too.

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What are they doing? I honestly don't know...

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They opened up medically assisted suicide as an option for more people. Now suicide is profitable, there are suicide service ads on television, though on YouTube they have to put behind a content warning.

All is Beauty ad glamorizing suicide

Just a couple months ago a Canadian woman in her 50s was suggested to undergo medically assisted suicide when she complained about wait times getting the health care she needed in their system, there was a bit of an uproar about it and Trudeau had to make a comment on it

Again, everyone should be able to choose to go on their own terms, but there’s another side to this if not done right.

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It baffles me how people are not allowed to go out on their own terms in a medically oversen, safe and humane way - especially those that have terminal conditions.

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They can, aside from suicide, it’s what hospice is supposed to do….

Unfortunately, a lot a family members refuse to follow advanced directives and avoid palliative care when the said person can’t make the decision for themselves.

I’ve seen family members do some crazy shite keeping their loved ones alive because of their guilt ridden minds. It’s terrible

A lot of time they use the “I don’t want to play God” reasoning, which they are playing God by not letting nature take its course.

“Daughter from California”

We put our pets down so they won't suffer. But people, frick em. Suffer till your last breath. Stupid.

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Daughter from California syndrome

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I’ve never known there was an actual term for this or ever hear it used.

It’s crazy how many times the palliative worker in our hospital tells us during rounds , we’re waiting for so and so in whatever state to make a decision. It’s crazy.

What’s sad is, we always have quite a few pts who are elderly with one foot in the grave who are full codes. fricking drives me crazy.

I have told my wife if I get some terminal disease I will not be going through treatments that will deplete all my lifes savings and leave her in debt after I did. Not gonna do that. I will do the minimal to deal with the pain and that will be it. No way I want 40+ years of my working life going to a hospital and not my family.

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The govt don't want you dying by your own hands without the govt getting all of their cut first.

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Allowing terminally ill people to die and foregoing the last few months of high level care would save the government tremendous amounts of money.

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