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Posted on 04/29/2026 9:50:27 AM PDT by TBP
Promoters of assisted suicide always couch their arguments in the language of compassion for those suffering from terminal illness, and 11 US states also permit assisted suicide, all of them except for Montana being dominated by the Democratic Party. This practice always has been couched in the language of “death with dignity,” and it generally has strong support from the political left, although the hard-left socialist publication, Jacobin, recently had an article by Jeremy Appel critical the circumstances under which some Canadians choose suicide, declaring:
But the legalization of MAiD has brought to the fore some disturbing moral calculations, particularly with its expansion in 2019 to include individuals whose deaths aren’t “reasonably foreseeable.” This change opened the floodgates for people with disabilities to apply to die rather than survive on meager benefits.
I’ve come to realize that euthanasia in Canada represents the cynical endgame of social provisioning within the brutal logic of late-stage capitalism — we’ll starve you of the funding you need to live a dignified life, demand you pay back pandemic aid you applied for in good faith, and if you don’t like it, well, why don’t you just kill yourself?
The problem with my previous perspective was that it held individual choices as sacrosanct. But people don’t make individual decisions in a vacuum. They’re the product of social circumstances, which are often out of their control.
It is not surprising to see Jacobin blaming capitalism for something done within the confines of a socialist system, but socialists go by the mindset that says if something is bad, it is the fault of capitalism, since socialism produces only happy results. But Appel is not wrong in pointing out that what began as a way ostensibly to end the suffering of terminally ill people has morphed into a program responsible for one in 20 Canadian deaths, with more than 100,000 people killed since the program began a decade ago, as Canada’s government did away with the requirements that only those with terminal illnesses could request doctor-assisted suicide.
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Yes we know the end game, but the problem is there’s very little being done to provide adequate improvements to the system we already have.
Sounds like death panels...
Absolutely....As soon as they drain your bank account..
Between the cracks: Why there are so many medical GoFundMe pages, and what this means for the users
https://gimarz.medium.com/between-the-cracks-why-there-are-so-many-medical-gofundme-pages-and-what-this-means-for-the-users-cc67af1724cc
Most people won’t care because they ain’t dead yet.
“Medical Bankruptcy
62.1% of bankruptcies were caused by medical issues
1 in 5 people surveyed have been contacted by collection agencies, while 9% of those surveyed stated they had declared personal bankruptcy due to medical expenses
26% of Americans aged 18 to 64 struggled to pay medical bills.
What we do know is that the rate of uninsured individuals has never been lower.”
Doctor: “That procedure will cost too much, and We’ll have to work too many hours operating. Have you ever considered suicide?”
Just like with using means testing for social security.
Eventually, the multi-billion dollar agency will just pay out to one person.
Whenever they say that "health care is a human right" and free government run healthcare delivers superior outcomes at a much lower cost, ask them the following question:
Since there are a finite number of physicians, medicine, hospitals, etc, it is therefore impossible to give everyone "free" healthcare, it must therefore be rationed.
And since healthcare must be rationed, it is impossible to give it to everyone who wants it, therefore it cannot be a universal right.
Any time you declare officially that it’s okay to kill people, without due process, the crazies will show themselves, and there are plenty of them in the clinical/medical professions.
Sarah Palin called it first.
Thinnking to of Zeke Emmanual (Rahm’s brother) who said nobody should live past 75.
Shades of Logan’s Run, except I’ll bet rich and/or politically connected Democrats will be exempt.
Followed by “cap-and-trade” on life expectancy, where people who fall short on social credits will ha assessed days or years off of their permitted life span, and that time donated to Democrats (or illegal immigrants) instead.
/cynical mode off>
Veterans - disabled and otherwise - should be owed healthcare (the BEST healthcare) and yet what they get is abysmal and inexcusable. Heartbreaking really, how many end up just languishing in pain and long waits.
It’s not healthy for free markets, that corporations and insurance companies profit so much from screwing consumers. Its its own totalitarianism.
A lot of responsible, hard working people work and pay into things like social security and pensions their whole lives only to have it all under threat while they’re at the cusp of age. To have inevitable health costs to worry about — sometimes due to the toll their labor took on their bodies — why normalize this in a country as rich as ours?
A lot of responsible, hard working people work and pay into things like social security and pensions their whole lives only to have it all under threat while they’re at the cusp of age. To have inevitable health costs to worry about — sometimes due to the toll their labor took on their bodies — why normalize this in a country as rich as ours?
And many of them have no plans for the future after they ARE dead!
That's ok though, for those of us WITH insurance will pay for them.
Haven’t we been doing this since ‘73?
Except the strong could make it to four score.
Does Chinese universal healthcare assist with killing their own?
Does (Hindu) Indian universal healthcare assist with killing their own?
Others outside of those? Middle East? Africa, Egypt, Russia? (Some may not have it, just asking)
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