Medically Assisted Dying Offered to Veteran Seeking Help for PTSD

Bringing awareness: the article in Havok Journal, and you sharing it, people discussing, is very heartening.

The whole thing makes me so livid. It's what I meant about it being too sickening.

Anyone saying "take yourself out of the game," is a big piece of shit who doesn't deserve an opinion. There are actual solutions, and they aren't eating bullet, or being euthanized. Attempting to incite suicide is for cheats, liars and cowards.
 
Found this on Reddit, the comments there say so much about our society.

Canadian Dentist Now Offering Euthanasia As Alternative To Cavity Filling

It's also not far off for satire, given March 2023, mental illness can be enough to access it; if they meet the criteria that the government has still failed to provide.

Any person who requests MAiD must be assessed by two healthcare practitioners (medical doctor or nurse practitioner) to determine if they meet all the criteria, including if their illness is grievous and irremediable. In situations where a person is not at the end of life, one of the healthcare practitioners must be a specialist in the condition that is causing intolerable suffering.
Currently, there are no agreed upon standards for psychiatrists or other healthcare practitioners to use to determine if a person’s mental illness is ‘grievous and irremediable’ for the purposes of MAiD. A government-appointed expert panel recently made recommendations for determining if a person has a grievous and irremediable mental illness. They recommended that healthcare practitioners look at the number and types of treatment attempts, outcomes of these treatment attempts and the severity and duration of the person’s illness. It is important to note that these are just recommendations at this point. It is not clear whether the government will use these recommendations and/or if further instructions or standards for determining grievous and irremediable mental illnesses will be developed before MaiD for mental illness as a sole medical condition becomes legal.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) and Mental Illness – FAQs


 
“no agreed upon standards for psychiatrists or other healthcare practitioners to use to determine if a person’s mental illness is ‘grievous and irremediable’ for the purposes of MAiD”

What the shit? That should be somewhere in the first questions (if not THE first question) addressed.
 
Found this on Reddit, the comments there say so much about our society.

Canadian Dentist Now Offering Euthanasia As Alternative To Cavity Filling

It's also not far off for satire, given March 2023, mental illness can be enough to access it; if they meet the criteria that the government has still failed to provide.


Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) and Mental Illness – FAQs


Well that's fucked.

For any Canadian friends, 3D printer goes brrrrrr.
 
I’m a big fan of medically assisted death in some situations. Depression and PTSD are not two of them. I cannot see a situation outside of incurable illness where this is part of the treatment algorithm. Canada man….
 
I’m a big fan of medically assisted death in some situations. Depression and PTSD are not two of them. I cannot see a situation outside of incurable illness where this is part of the treatment algorithm. Canada man….

I'm at a point in life where I am seeing a lot of parents, aunts, uncles, and friends of theirs pass on. Some have died miserable deaths from incurable illness. I've definitely become supportive of ending the pain and suffering in some situations. Suffering from incurable illness is where I draw a personal line.
 
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- It was time, she was suffering so much that we were keeping her alive more for us than for her.
- The poor thing actually stroked out and was essentially brain dead, we had to let her go.
- He was so riddled with cancer that anytime awake was absolute agony, it was time.

That’s was we say about our pets, and always with a nod of approval and comfort from those around us. Our parents, friends, or relatives though? Nope, they need to suffer and ride it out til the end.

If my mom had her way, she would choose to end her life. She has a terminal disease (PSP) that is incredibly rare and living out her days waiting to die; meanwhile she is self aware enough to know that she has zero quality of life remaining as her body and muscles shut down on her. Yet as a family we are forced to to watch (and she to participate) as she drains what little money she has and suffers the pain and indignity that comes with this type of disease.
 
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