#medical aid in dying

[salvadorbonaparte]

There are a lot of controversies around Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) but putting those aside we need to talk about that guy who accidentally took a sip of his friend's death drug cocktail because he said it tastes bad

[mournfulelegy]

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆.

I’ll be going by “𝑺” here, and I’m a 23 year old woman, burdened by the weight of existence.

For as long as memory serves, I’ve never understood why I was alive.

In the crucible of hardship, I have tasted the bitter dregs of suffering, endured the relentless onslaught of pain and disillusionment. Every setback, every shattered hope, has served to deepen the chasm of despair within me, until I find myself teetering on the brink of oblivion.

Exhausted and weary, I’ve decided personally that existence simply is not for me. Suicide beckons as a beacon of hope amidst the encroaching darkness—a flicker of light in the vast expanse of despair. With a heart heavy with sorrow yet resolute in purpose, I have chosen to embark upon this solemn journey, to seek solace in the embrace of death’s gentle embrace.

In this digital sanctuary, I lay bare my thoughts and struggles, a testament to the torment that has brought me to this precipice. I am not merely a victim of circumstance, but a woman who wishes for autonomy and dignity in the face of suffering.

Forever hoping for Legal assisted suicide which beckons as a beacon of hope amidst the encroaching darkness—a flicker of light in the vast expanse of despair. And so, with every ounce of strength that remains within me, I shall raise my voice in defiance against the oppressive forces that seek to deny me this final act of autonomy. I shall fight, tooth and nail, for the right to choose my own destiny, to chart my own course towards the shores of eternal peace.

If you are sensitive to this type of content / information I advise you to stay weary of my page and seek your entertainment elsewhere. However if you find yourself down the same path as me, let’s travel this journey together.

[ladylenoragriffin]

“37-year-old male with… attention deficit disorder”

You don’t fucking say.

at the euthanasia party everyone gets a sip of the forbidden lean

[mynah-bird-death]

Now it's time for a potentially controversial conversation. My loves let's talk about medical aid in dying (MAiD).

What is MAiD?

If, like me, you're in the United States you may be more familiar with this under the inaccurate name of assisted suicide. MAiD is legal prescription of lethal doses of medication to induce a peaceful and gentle death at the time of the patient's choosing.

In states where it is legal in order to qualify for MAiD you must: Be over the age of 18, be of sound mind both when the prescription is requested and when you administer it, have 6 months or fewer to live, and are able to take the medication under your own power. Individual states may have additional requirements, but those are the baseline Musts.

I, and therefore this company, are staunch advocates of MAiD. It is my view that if you own something, you are able to dispose of it as you see fit. If you can't do so then it isn't really yours. The question then becomes who owns your life?

You?

Your community?

Your family?

Your faith?

Your country?

Because those answers are deeply personal, I argue that your life *must* first be yours in order for you to decide it can belong to a different entity. It is with this view in mind that I undertook additional training to be able to support MAiD clients, even though it is not yet legal in the state in which I live. Yet. I'm working on it loves, I promise.

I understand this is a Deeply Emotional topic, and I ask that you engage with this post with respect and compassion for intensely different views. I welcome debate and feelings, but I Will be watching the comments on this post closely. Remember to be kind to those who disagree, we're all approaching this from a deeply emotional and personal vantage point.

[tomato-puppy]

fuck. canada pushed back eligibility for medical assistance in dying for people suffering from mental illnesses. until march 2027.

[5ellaal5]

Actually, I thought of an answer:

However many iterations it took to find some folks in hospice care who hoped for Death with Dignity but were denied it because of it being illegal where they are or they didn’t qualify, and they need someone to help find the supplies and talk to family/friends until everyone is on board, and then find the right medication that will be an easy and peaceful death.

However many iterations it takes to learn all that, do the counseling, and get the supplies within one time loop, that’s how many it would take.

But even then I wouldn’t set out to do it just because I was time looping.

Presumably I have other things to do.

Because then I’d want to keep providing that option in each loop and that would be heartbreaking to see them back alive and suffering unless I intervened.

As another person in tags ( @lacuna-of-light ) said, if I make the decision to help someone reach death, I’d want for them to stay dead.

For their sake, not mine.

if you were trapped in a time loop how many repetitions do you think it would take for you to willingly kill another person, knowing there would be no consequences

[heartbroken-ghost]

I can't wait to apply for MAID

[booasaur]

What using the tiniest bit of US leverage can do.

[yinyuedijun]

thank u to my mooties who told me everything about touyas ending I think I can work it into hell fic except I don't know if I want to write that much fic for such a narratively bankrupt series tbh lol

[treemaidengeek]

Former hospice chaplain here. This question is highly individual and is often made relationship by relationship, not all or nothing.

Real talk about death & dying below the cut.

Your death certificate (in the USA at least) will state your illness as your cause of death, so the only people who will know about MAiD are the ones you specifically tell (& anyone they confide in). So much about our health, our living and dying, is beyond our control. This part? this part you get to choose.

Consider how, specifically, you want to make your exit. Anyone you want to have at your side will need to know. I'm aware of one person who literally had a champagne party as their last hurrah, surrounded by all their loved ones, & took the end-of-life medications in their champagne. I'm aware of others who chose one or two closest loved ones to be present. Not strictly MAiD, but I know one person who elected to stop eating and drinking and, a couple weeks later, passed peacefully with only the nurse present.

Consider the moral views of the people close to you. someone who you suspect views MAiD as suicide and suicide as bad is someone who is going to really struggle with your decision, if they know. Do you want to have conversations with that person ahead of time to persuade them to understand your decision? Whether or not you try, can you live with it (pardon the pun) if they don't come around?

Are there minor children involved? I'm not qualified to advise you there. See if your medical team can get you access to a child psychologist or child life specialist to counsel your loved ones about supporting your family/community in supporting the kiddos. Take the kiddos into account when deciding how to address your decision with the guardians they rely upon.

Anon, if you're asking about a 3 yr advance approval process, you probably don't live in the USA. For those who do, Compassion & Choices is the place to start investigating your state's options, or how you can help advocate for a terminally ill loved one (or for a worthy social justice cause whether or not it is currently touching your life). I'm afraid I don't know the equivalent orgs in other countries, but C&C can probably direct inquiries to appropriate international partners.

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[rust-bearer]

Such a tiny scene. Very brief, but…

Six months later, grieving First Aid, always to walk into the medbay and see Ambulon’s desk, first thing. And then to his workshop, with Ambulon’s corpse.

[angelnumber27]

Hey my loves. I need serious financial help with getting my medications.

Withdrawals have started for one or two meds and are about to for another couple. It’s hell I feel like I’m in hell being tortured and I want to lay on the ground and die. Any and everything helps and I am incredibly grateful for all of you.

My cshapp is $juliagw

DM me for my Venmo or PayPal.

Also I sell content that never ever disappoints so please consider supporting me that way lol. Dm me if interested ☺️

Right now I need $150 for the the three. The fourth is $55 but I think I can go without it better than I could without the others. So I’m prioritizing.

$3/$150

(I found some quarters that add up to 3 bucks. ha)

Love you guys. I’m so so sorry to everyone else who has to go through this perpetual cycle of trying to find a way to pay for medications that you need and having to feel like you’re dying for days when you can’t. It feels like being punished for not having perfect brain chemistry and it’s just.. tiring. I know so many people go through the same things and I’m just sending you all so much love. ❤️

[creations-by-chaosfay]

A thing I pre-ordered months ago has shipped!

What's the thing?

Keepsake Quilting, and several other quilt companies/stores, put a sort of gift box together with fabric, notions, patterns, and gift cards in them. You don't know what you're getting, making it a surprise. I have never purchased one because they're expensive. This was 50% upfront, 50% when shipped, for a total of $150. Considering how much is in it, and what reviews were left the last several years, it's a steal. Plus, I wanna treat myself after having such a stressful and unpleasant year.

My mom and one of aunts have ordered such boxes in the past, but according to my mom, they're disappointing because she has so many of the things in the package, or no use for many of them. Rulers (some of which cost $30), needles, rotary cutters and extra blades (blades can be $10/each, new cutters up to $50), fabric marking tools (chalk pencils, disappearing ink, etc), precut fabric collections (jelly rolls can be $80, fat quarter collections up to $100 depending on number of FQs), and yardage ($12.99-$21.99/yard). She's been disappointed by "ugly" fabric too many times.

I, on the other hand, have significantly fewer tools. I make things for people to buy, and some folks love fabric I cannot stand (like x-mas and patriotic prints). There have been fabrics I consider well and truly hideous, and those I list in my shop or sell to people here. One person's trash is another's treasure, right? I've met people who think pastels are ugliest things to have ever existed. I think baby pink and green military camouflage look fantastic together, as well as turquoise and light hemp brown or terracotta and peacock blue. My mom finds them hideous. I think pink and any shade of brown look terrible together, or red and khaki (likely from working at Target and seeing is everywhere). Again, personal taste.

If any of you ever fancy treating me to one of these random collections of fabric and/or notions, feel free to do so. They're the sort of surprise I enjoy (that and people purchasing my work, especially from my shop). Sure, there are things that may he of no use to me, but others can use them. Nothing goes to waste.

This package will be arriving on November 18th, and has me giggling with excitement!

[doctorweebmd]

Presentation done, now to focus on the important things: catching up on fanfiction

[liminalweirdo]

To Gaind, the data shows “there hasn’t been a slippery slope. We’ve had a cliff. We’re falling off it … I’m concerned about what it says about our society.” He sees the sharply trending upward line as a betrayal of the public trust, especially for vulnerable patients who choose assisted death because they can’t access the help they need to make their lives more livable. “I’m concerned about the marginalized lives that are going to be lost,” he says. “We didn’t give them the chance to live with dignity, but are all too eager to say ‘Oh, here’s the path to dying with dignity.’ ” "...Unlike Dutch and Belgium laws, which require provision of MAID as a last resort option, “Canada does not,” says Kim from the Institutes of Health. “Canadian law is unique. It gives doctors almost free rein on what to do if someone has a diagnosis and they’re miserable with it,” he said. “Then you marry it to a very-well organized delivery system — your healthcare system. It gives the medical system and your sociopolitical system an out when you abandon people.”

It is deeply disturbing that waitlists for accessible social housing or any rent-geared-to-income housing has a wait time decades long. Meanwhile, medically assistance in dying can be obtained in as little as 90 days.

MAiD should be a last resort, not a convenient excuse for government to absolve themselves of making sound public policy so people with disabilities can live with dignity."

tl;dr: disabled people in Canada are choosing medical assistance in dying because they can't afford food or housing on disability benefits and many feel that they have no other options other than death.

read more about Canada's push for eugenics

here

here

[sarkos]

After an initial discussion and request for Massey’s drivers license, Grayson spotted a pot of boiling water on the stove and ordered Massey to remove it to avoid starting a fire. In doing so, Massey asks the officers – who visibly distance themselves from her as she goes to handle the pot – why they moved away from her. “Where you going?” she asks them. “Away from your hot steaming water,” Grayson answers, with a laugh, before Massey responds: “Away from the hot steaming water? Oh, I’ll rebuke you in the name of Jesus.” With his gun drawn, Grayson closed the distance between himself and Massey, who was beginning to kneel behind a counter with her hands up. Massey can be heard saying, “I’m sorry,” as Grayson continues to advance. “I’m sorry,” she says again as Grayson fires three shots, striking her with a bullet below the eye that exited from the back of her neck. As Massey lay dying on her kitchen floor, Grayson says he’ll go get his medical kit to render aid. “That’s a headshot. She’s done,” Grayson says before going to get the med kit. As the pair stand there with their guns still drawn, Grayson says: “I’m not taking a bullet out of her fucking head,” then points out that the water from the pot had reached his feet. “What else can we do?” Grayson asks his partner. “I’m not taking hot boiling water to the fucking face.” Grayson’s partner tends to Massey and at one point says, “she’s still gasping” and wonders what’s taking Grayson so long with the medical kit. When paramedics and other officers arrive, one can be heard asking, “where’s the gun?” Grayson replies that Massey had a pot of boiling water and threatened to rebuke him in the name of Jesus. Paramedics took her to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Grayson has been arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder and is being held without bond until his trial is set to begin. It is exceedingly rare for police officers to be charged with murder in the death of a citizen, and hasn’t occurred in such a high-profile case since the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

Body-cam video shows Illinois police officer fatally shooting Black woman in face | Illinois | The Guardian