re: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Signs Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill

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but it quickly becomes a cost-saving measure like in Canada

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This.

MAiD is awful.

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So easy to say when you have not experienced the acute suffering of a loved one.

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You know nothing about me and are obviously ignoring the abuses of this program in Canada.

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Have you ever had a family member in this situation, I assume not.

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Well you proved the old adage right about what you do when you assume. I have watched my father die with dementia and am moving my mother in in two weeks to live with us under Hospice care. If you comprehended my comment in the first place, it was from the standpoint of my personal pondering, and was in no way judgmental of others for the decision they chose to make. But you chopped off that part of my comment.

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Is it a sin? If I chose to go out like that would I be leaving the world with an unconfessed sin? That would be main internal question and likely drawback about choosing to go out like that.

Is the law working as intended in the United States?

To my understanding, yes. But I admit that I don't know every single case.

Re whatever may be happening in Canada, if there are problems, then we should be able to draft a law to address that.

I watched my dad die of cancer, it was terrible but they kept him drugged up, we brought him home and put a hospital bed in the living room of my mom's home. It was bad but he died of natural causes.

My uncle smoked camel non filters all his life, if he couldn't get them he would smoke Marlboro Reds and break the filter off.

Needless to say when he went down it was bad, emphysema/cardiac, couldn't breath or eat and was rolling around in the hospital bed crying in misery.

The Dr (an old family friend) asked my aunt if she was ready and when she said yes he told her to go home. The next call was that he had passed, we never asked any questions but we all know what happened.

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I mean, if a person in a depression decides to target themselves, do they get help in by Dr. Kevorkian?

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Do you think depression falls under “terminally ill?”

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MAiD is awful.

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There is no argument that MAID is the correct, compassionate answer in many a scenario. No doubt at all.

The argument against it is slippery slope/how to write the policy. And that’s a very legitimate counter. My answer to that is….

People have the right to go out on their own terms. Forcing people to suffer because it makes you feel moral is not compassionate, and it's not moral. It's just you forcing your beliefs on others while they are the ones who pay the price.

Of course there are problems with how Canada does it. Not doing something because other people do it poorly is not a good excuse. If we didn't have to go through doctors to get every medication, then people could make the choice on their own without persuasion. Then you simply make it illegal for healthcare professionals to bring up assisted suicide. Strip their credentials and put them in jail.

It's possible to have a system that gives people dignity without pushing a death cult. We simply have to use common sense.

If some people choose to go out early, then so be it. Their choice. The number of people you save by making it illegal is dwarfed by the number of decent people who will suffer pain and indignity unnecessarily.

Fully support this and it probably shouldn’t be limited to strictly terminal illnesses. There are a host of other debilitating conditions which should be considered as well, should the patient choose.

Before returning to my faith, I would have supported this. But seeing it utilized in Canada & what they're trying to do in the UK, which amounts to expanding the purview of this option to factors completely irrespective of the terminality of the illness, which even in those cases prognoses can be wrong & people can beat the odds, what you find is that it's essentially the Left's version of the German T4 program utilized to eliminate "economic dregs" and, even more insidious, the nativist population.

Programs like this and abortion are pure evil and societies that enable & promote such programs are suffering from deep moral, institutional, & spiritual rot. And I would arrive at that conclusion were I still an atheist.