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I feel like if thereâs one bill that shouldnât be fast-tracked through parliament, it should be the one about assisted dying.
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Quebec residents diagnosed with Alzheimerâs disease will soon be able to apply for medical assistance in dying (MAID) starting Oct. 30, allowing them to make the choice before losing their decision-making capacity. However, some doctors say the healthcare system is unprepared and canât handle the increase in requests. âI donât think most of the doctors or nurse practitioners or health care professionals will be ready,â said palliative medicine Dr Mathieu Moreau in a recent interview. Quebec is moving forward with the change more than a year after changing provincial law knowing that the federal government has yet to alter the criminal code.
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Daily Express readers having a completely normal and in no way absolutely bananas reaction to the General Election result
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*ALL OF THE YES OPTIONS WOULD INCLUDE THE REQUIRED PSYCH AND HEALTH EVALUATION*
It would be great if you could give more of an in depth opinion in the comments and if possible include where you are from.
Thank you!
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In Canada in 2015, 1 in 50 deaths were caused by assisted suicide. By 2020, that rate had doubled - *doubled*, to 1 in 25. If we accept that you can only 'know' about 150 people at once, then that would mean each person would know 6 people who died by assisted suicide.
Faced with these numbers, are we actually expected to believe that before Canada legalised assisted suicide, there were really that many people who were in such intolerable and untreatable pain that they were just itching to die early? I doubt it. I think it's more likely that where assisted suicide is legalised, attitudes towards suicide and the sanctity of life change for the worse.
This is why I object to the term 'assisted dying', which I regard as an insidious euphemism. This issue is not separable from the problem of suicide more broadly in society. The rates of suicide in the Netherlands have only increased since that country legalised assisted suicide, compare 8.3 suicides per 100,000 deaths in 2007 with 11.3 per 100,000 in 2017. The 'sanctity of life' argument is not just religionese, it's backed up by the facts.
Opponents of assisted suicide, like myself, talk about Canada and the Netherlands and Belgium so much that even I think we begin to sound like a broken record, but I think this is warranted. These countries are only the most extreme examples, but out of the 19 countries which have legalised assisted suicide, nearly all of them have expanded the eligibility criteria beyond the supposdely robust raft of safeguards originally promised.
Are we really so naĂŻve as to think that it can't possibly happen here? This is a country which voted to leave the EU, after all. Given what's at stake, I don't for a moment trust us to get this right.
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"Physically-healthy Dutch woman Zoraya ter Beek dies by euthanasia aged 29 because she did not want to live with depression"
Read the article here.
Here's another article from before the procedure.
I think it was brave of Zoraya ter Beek to speak so publicly about her decision to be euthanized for depression and other mental illnesses, and it breaks my heart that she was met with so much vitriol:
Ter Beek was forced to delete all her social media profiles after an article about her case was published in April, which led to many users bombarding her inbox telling her not to go through with the procedure, which left her in distress.
âPeople were saying: âDonât do it, your life is precious.â I know that. Others said they had a cure, like a special diet or drugs. Some told me to find Jesus or Allah, or told me Iâd burn in hell. It was a total sâtstorm. I couldnât handle all the negativity.â
I am still ambivalent about legal euthanasia for mental illness. I was once suicidally depressed and now feel quite grateful to still be alive. But I understand this woman's desperation to find relief, having tried out every treatment modality myself.
There's something weird about the temporality of depression tho--it has a way of canceling the future. What is felt in the moment (pure suffering) is imputed to both the past and future: it will always be this way. Yet that is not always the case.
That said, I don't doubt that there are people who are, I guess you could call, incurable. They might become "curable" as humans unravel the mysteries of mental illness. But it seems impossible to really know whether someone is actually incurable or temporarily believes they're incurable--I probably would have thought I was one of the incurables when I was in it. The main difference between Zoraya ter Beek and me is: she tried everything and did not improve. I tried everything and eventually improved through a lengthy psychoanalysis.
Maybe I'm slowly coming around to Zoraya ter Beek's perspective. I think her critics probably cannot get into the mind of someone who experiences consciousness as unremitting torture.
From my journal:
She coolly says, there will be no music when they put her down. No funeral. She will exit this world sitting on her couch with her partner. Yes, sheâs afraid of dyingâdeath being the ultimate unknown. She feels guilty about leaving her loved ones behind. âBut sometimes when you love someone, you have to let them go.â Her words prick me. Why couldnât I just let you beâŚgone? When a deer is mortally wounded we speak of the need to put the poor creature out of its misery, but we felt no guilt about demanding you stay alive. I still hear Amelia Rosselli, from beyond the grave, whispering about âthose who destroy me by making me exist.â
Is it possible that requiring someone to stay alive (against their will) is a form of torture? Do people have a "right" to die? Is the desire to keep someone alive more about the narcissism of living loved ones than altruism?
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They're talking about assisted dying on the news and my opinion on it comes down to: it is impossible to keep people truly safe from forced euthanasia as long as the safety net for the vulnerable has holes. As long as you are relying on private money, and family, and free labour to catch and make up failings of the state there will always be people who are pushing for death of the inconvenient, and the unloved, and the undesired. It will always end up killing people who should not die because death is cheeper than living.
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// note: explicitly not about the Canada stuff
I donât mean the following to be an argument against the 192347987 reasons assisted dying has bad outcomes, or is abused, etc etc. Iâm going to quote discoursedrome
itâs common for people to argue that something has costs and so we shouldnât do it, or that it has benefits and so we should do it, and act like theyâve finished presenting a cogent case for their position, and I am just astonished at the level of confusion that this requires. In a serious discussion, you donât even have both legs in your pants at that point! Itâs weighing trade-offs in the presence of uncertainty. If your argument doesnât engage with the subject on that level, itâs not ready for competition yet.
, clarify that Iâm not making a âthis has costs and therefore we shouldnât do itâ type argument, and move on with my point.
Dying as an old person right now sucks.
It can take anywhere from a day to several weeks for someone to die. Sometimes your family wants to wait at the bedside for a week. But a lot of the time they have work and things to do. Maybe they live thousands of miles away. You havenât recognized them in years, you havenât spoken a coherent word in months, and even if for some reason your brain chose this moment to recover lucidity youâre on enough morphine to be well inside the borders of la-la-land. ...
There is a national volunteer program called No One Dies Alone. Nice people from the community go into hospitals to spend time with dying people who donât have anyone else there for them. It makes me happy that this program exists.
Nevertheless, this is the way many of my patients die. Old, limbless, bedridden, ulcerated, in a puddle of waste, gasping for breath, loopy on morphine, hopelessly demented, in a sterile hospital room with someone from a volunteer program who just met them sitting by their bed.
I think practically everyone, if they thought about it, would agree that it sucks, even if they have not spent any times in the places where old people slowly die.
My ideal way to die, some time after getting a âyou are going to be in pain and on a lot of meds for the rest of your lifeâ diagnosis, is to have a three day long death party. Everyone who wants can come by, chat about old times, and maybe take some of my stuff as a gift. Iâll make them read my fanfiction.
If relevant, Iâll try to be on whatever meds balance of ânot being in too much painâ and âlets me be lucid enough to talk to everyoneâ. In the last hour, Iâll gather the 3-10 closest people, take a normal dose of heroin (Iâd like to know what itâs like at the ONE time itâs safe), and after that take a lethal dose of heroin. Iâll go high on party vibes, surrounded by my loved ones, not feeling abandoned or lonely or too scared.
There is no way for me to have this in the world I live in now. There is no way for you to have this in the world you live in now. Every single person has a much higher risk of having a scary, lonely, painful, undignified death in a world where assisted dying is illegal or very hard to access.
There are a lot of cruelties in the world and this is one of the big ones to me.
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A man who says he suffers from chronic and worsening mental health issues is among those launching a court challenge of the federal governmentâs assisted dying law, which excludes people suffering solely from a mental disorder. An application filed by Dying with Dignity in Ontario Superior Court on Monday argues that it is discriminatory to bar people with mental disorders from being eligible for an assisted death when it is available to people who suffer physically. The organization is asking the court to immediately quash the mental-health exclusion. Plaintiff John Scully said going to court is his last hope.
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This Doctor Laugh About Human Suffering. It's Terrifying
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Working on Better Endings
Welcome to our last blog post of the year. Before I get to it, let me say thank you for supporting us. We appreciate it every time you read something we write and every time you listen to our podcast. You are literally the only reason we are doing these things!Â
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 Now for the post itself.
Except that Iâm not quite sure where to begin.Â
I wanted to write about assisted dying. Itâs not a cheerful way to end the year but itâs important to be able to have a gentle end to your own story. But itâs mostly unavailable. The legal right to medical assistance with dying would make the world a more humane place. Yet itâs complicated.
If assisted dying had been available here in Germany, the horror of the last week that Spouse, MIL, and I lived throughâbut not my fatherâinâlawâcould have been avoided. Except that maybe it couldnât have been. Because, argh... Itâs not always clear what is the right or even the best thing to do. The deeper you get into a situation where assisted dying would be useful, the more you see how convoluted the maze of shades of grey the possibility of helping someone end their life can be.
FIL had Alzheimerâs. If youâve ever had a close relative with this disease, you know what devastation it wreaks. Over the course of a dozen years, Alzheimerâs had withered FIL into a shadow of himself (although not without the occasional increasingly dimmer flash of his old self). Then, in the middle of December, FIL got sick and had to be hospitalized. This had been increasingly happening, but this time it was an infection. They tried but couldnât deliver the antibiotics he desperately needed via an IV. He kept ripping it out of his arm. And orally the antibiotics just werenât effective enough. FILâs condition quickly degraded.Â
But there were ups and downs. Things looked grimâand Spouse and I rushed down from where we live several hours awayâand then they looked better and then they looked grim again. Meanwhile, the doctor kept threatening to discharge FIL in a day or two, even there was no way MIL, tough but small, could properly care for him at home on her own. In the state he was in, it took two people to get him up and out of bed to get him to the bathroom or anything like that and there was no end in sight to the wait for a space in a nursing home. Â
The last day that FIL was at least briefly lucidâwhich turned out to be two days before he diedâhe swerved back and forth between saying he wished it was all over and saying that he was so glad that he had more time. In retrospect, clearly, he was dying, so swift and severe was his deterioration. But even the doctor and nurses didnât recognize it up until half an hour before the end. That was when the offâduty physical therapist who had come to visit (because she was a friend) was like CALL HIS WIFE AND SON NOW!  And even then, it didnât occur to the doctor or nurses on the ward that he needed sedation posthaste so that he didnât have to experience the horrible death his was about to have to...well, not live through, but you know what I mean. It only occurred to them to offer sedation a minute or two after heâd died, to stop the twitching the body does as all of its biological electricity discharges (so to speak).
Given all that confusion, maybe the possibility for assisted dying wouldnât have spared my FIL from drowning in his own lung fluid because of the lung infection that is the typical way for people with Alzheimerâs to go because eventually their coordination degrades to the point where they can no longer successfully swallow or properly cough. And maybe it wouldnât have spared the three of usâMIL, Spouse, and Iâfrom having to watch him die that way. (The offâduty PT fled in tears the moment we arrived, thereby missing FILâs death by about 120 seconds. Which is to say, I think FIL fought hard to stay alive until his wife and son were able to get there and then let go.)
Oh, the number of times this last week that MIL muttered, we would have put an animal out of this misery a while ago already. And the number of times that Spouse agreed! Still, the deeper you get into a situation like Alzheimerâs, the more you see that maze of shades of grey. You can say, well, the person they were before they developed Alzheimerâs would have never wanted to see themselves live this way. And they would have wanted not to suffer the horrible death that is about to befall them. You know you are horrified by seeing them live this way. And youâll never get the sight of that horrible death out of your head, especially nights, when you are trying to sleep. But what do you do when the person there in front of you now, thick in the midst of their advanced case of Alzheimerâs, has different feelings about it?  Can you just say they donât know what theyâre talking about? Plus, they arenât just miserable. Even when theyâre in the hospital dying, they appear to experience moments of joy. Sure, you are certain they donât grasp the future theyâre facing or the horrible death that awaits them. But even if they donât understand what is happening, how could you ever have the moral right to say fetch the poison for someone who has moments of consciousness but canât decide that theyâre ready to go?
All of this is not to say that assisted dying is wrong. As muddled as this week was, after experiencing it, I am now all the more certain that assisted dying is important. We have that moral right to decide the where and the when of dying for ourselves when the time comes, for whatever reason, to die. We ought to fight for the legal right to it, too. But the fight for people to have the legal right for medical assistance with dying with dignity and without undo suffering will take facing the fact that assisted dying can be a thorny issue. There are times when itâs wrong and should be withheld. And there are times when it isnât clear if itâs right or if itâs wrong and that can be true even when the person in question is suffering and has no hope for recovery from whatever is destroying them. We need to be brave enough and clear headed enough as communities or societies to address these issues.
I guess, in the end, then, assisted dying is what Iâve ended up writing about. I guess Iâll also say hug your loved ones! And go do something out of the ordinary with them. It doesnât have to be anything major, just something different enough for you to always remember. Because as long as life is, the years do go by and eventually come to an end that sneaks up on you, leaving you to think about all the time you didnât spend with someone before it was too late.
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assisted dying campaigns across the world are saying they donât want what the Canadian government is doing like Canada has done so much damage to the movement
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