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hermaphroditus1124 · 11 days

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Need too kill someone so I don’t kill myself, any tboys looking to get euthanized? I’ll give you a little chocolate and a kiss before I take you out back and kill you with the axe.

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purpleweredragon · 1 year

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“There is a name often associated with the trope of a caregiver aiding a disabled person to end their lives by suicide — Bury Your Disabled. This trope often romanticizes the idea that to help a person with disabilities end their life is a beautiful moment, the apex of a passionate desire never to leave the side of the loved one, culminated by providing that very person with a merciful death.

“...this sort of storyline results in real-life consequences for disabled people that cannot be ignored. Ableist narratives are fed to people from an early age that disabled lives are less worth living, and that people with disabilities are objects worthy of pity — something disabled people would absolutely disagree with. Even more gut-wrenchingly, they lead to people murdering disabled loved ones, and pity from the public towards those who perpetuate that violence.

“Studies show that in the United States, at least one disabled person a week is murdered by a caregiver. Unfortunately, perpetrators are rarely adequately sentenced. “The media portrays these murders as justifiable and inevitable due to the ‘burden’ of having a disabled person in the family,” says the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in their ASAN’s anti-filicide toolkit. “If the parent stands trial, they are given sympathy and comparatively lighter sentences, if they are sentenced at all.” Narratives such as the one presented in this episode of The Last Of Us seep into the public consciousness — and conscience — and is part of why that happens.

“The idea that it is a noble sacrifice of love to kill a disabled person, to take them out of their misery, should not be normalized like this.”

#the last of us #the last of us hbo #long long time #ableism #euthanasia #murder #disability representation

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night-wyld-system · 10 months

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Canada Engages In Eugenics

The MAID act is actually making it so that mentally and physically disabled people would be at risk for euthanasia via purposeful eugenics by a governmental body. The fact that I as a multiply disabled person have had to see multiple people defend eugenics under the guise of "it's fear mongering to talk about". I am sick and tired of people who are low support needs deciding because it doesn't affect them people like us with more severe issues deserve to be killed or left for dead.

Track Two MAID is an act that is meant to kill off people not seen as proper workers. This is totalitarian capitalism, and as a socialist there is nothing I hate more than people who support this. It is expanding to people with mental illnesses as well as including non-terminal illnesses. I should not be killed because my legs are shitty, nobody should be killed because their legs our shitty. Nobody should be killed for their mental illness, or deformity, or disability, or developmental disorder, or cognitive impairment. NOBODY SHOULD BE KILLED FOR NOT BEING A GOOD ENOUGH WORKER FOR THE CAPITALIST REGIME.

Here is one opinion piece by a counselor from Canada.

An article on teen vouge

Another opinion piece

And a final article on the subject

Do not talk about an ongoing socio-political issue if you refuse to do your research, holy fuck you people are ghoulish for defending this shit.

The groups pushing this legislation are also trying to kill off disabled children. This isn't about stopping from going through a long painful withering away from a terminal condition or illness- this is eugenics.

CANADIAN DISABLED LIVES ARE IN DANGER

#syscourse #<- this is where we happened to see this #mentally ill #track two MAID #ableism #tw ableism #tw murder #tw euthanasia #physically disabled #government sanctioned murder #eugenics #eugenicism #and yes- if you are one of those fuckers who said it doesn't matter for people with DID shut the actual fuck up #DID is one of the most demonized disorders and if you think they won't try it you're dead wrong #I am not canadian but I fucking care about people outside of the country I live in

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compassionatereminders · 3 months

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On tge killing anon- killing, in nature, is apathetic and neutral. I agree with this. Its all part a the circle of life. All of that crap

But killing in terms of humans? Well, our entire existence hinges on defying nature. Using the ingredients of our universe to make world ending bombs an whatnot. And because of our language developments, and our abilities to empathize and form connections and incredibly profound and complex ideas, the act of killing unavoidably becomes something explicity charged with meaning, intent, cognitive dissonance, cruelty, and violence.

We defy nature in that, by extension of sentience, the deliberate killing of another individual of the same species is no longer such a simple phenomenon of that nature.

No matter in what way you kill, you are taking someone's life. And that is violent and painful. There is no way to avoid it. Even in those "what ifs" scenarios, of "well I got the worlds worst cancer and it's either medically induced euthanization, or living for the next 6 months-2 years in increasingly worse and worse conditions". Even if you choose the culling option, it is still violent and harmful. Not that the patient in question *shouldn't* choose to end their life. That's their choice to make in accordance with their specific circumstances. But rather, regardless of the choice they make, people will suffer. Your friends and family will feel so much... anguish and guilt. The doctor assissting you might feel as though they have your blood on their hands.

Killing another human is anything but neutral.

Well said.

#chat with kat #kat plays games #suicide tw #death tw #murder tw #euthanasia tw #terminal illness tw #cancer tw

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dragoneyes618 · 1 year

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The Trudeau government is set to expand its already lax laws surrounding euthanasia to include anyone with a mental illness, as well as possibly children and babies with severe disabilities, report AP, Forbes, Fox News and other outlets.

As soon as March 2023, if the current political trend prevails, Canada could allow “mature minors”—a loosely defined term without a specific age—to be killed by state doctors performing “assisted suicide” without the consent of their parents, noted Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Prior to being euthanized, these individuals or parents acting on their behalf would have to apply for Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, and to meet the loose criteria of mental illness or severe disability that at least two physicians deem “intolerable.”

Originally, patients had to have a terminal condition where death was considered imminent. A “reform” of that law- known as Bill C-7 – passed parliament in March 2021, removing that requirement and giving Canada one of the most lax assisted-suicide law requirements in the world.

Sources in Canada say an even more shocking portion of the assisted-suicide bill will take effect on March 17, 2023. This provision will expand medically assisted suicides even further. Under the latest changes, a patient whose sole affliction is a mental health condition will be eligible for “assisted suicide.”

Astoundingly, prominent Canadians have voiced support for this reprehensible law; they even advocate that it be extended to include infants and disabled children.

Glorifying Legalized Murder

Proponents of euthanasia glorify the concept of legalized murder, euphemistically calling it “mercy-killing” or “medically assisted death.” Dr. Deryk Smith of the University of British Columbia, writing for “Common Sense,” said “MAID is about relieving suffering and recognizing the inherent right for individuals for autonomy over their health and even their death.”

But as MAID picked up momentum in Canada, its focus widened to the point where individual autonomy is not necessarily driving the movement. At times the underlying motive is clearly the desire to abandon responsibility for the disabled.

Dr. Charles Roy of the Quebec College of Physicians recently recommended in a Canadian parliamentary meeting that babies up to 1 year old can be candidates for “assisted suicide,” if they have “severe deformations or very grave and severe syndromes.”

The very usage of the term “assisted suicide” for a baby is a ghastly joke.

Roy’s statement came as he was testifying before the Canadian House of Commons’ Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying. Disability advocates and other Canadians with any moral backbone were horrified at Roy’s support for infanticide.

Pushback has come not only from conservative and religious voices who find Canada’s ever-widening embrace of euthanasia morally repugnant. Even liberal entities that in principle support the concept of euthanasia have sounded the alarm about the country’s inhumane approach to the disabled.

Echoes Of Nazi Euthanasia

In a recent Associated Press article, Prof. Tim Stainton of the University of British Columbia slammed Canada’s proposed new “assisted dying” laws as “the biggest threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.”

Calling the inclusion of children and infants “grotesquely perverted,” Forbes magazine wrote that with the law’s new extensions slated to go in effect in March, “unfettered access to [to euthanasia] could prove to unleash one of the most malignant forces since the “mercy killings” of the Third Reich almost nine decades ago.”

Inclusion Canada said it was “alarmed” by Dr. Roy’s recommendation for the legalization of euthanasia for babies with disabilities under the age of one.

“Canada cannot begin killing babies when doctors predict there is no hope for them,” Krista Carr, executive vice president of Inclusion Canada, told National Post. “Predictions are far too often based on discriminatory assumptions about life with a disability.”

Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, asserted the College’s position made no sense. “Why would anyone have to give the child a lethal dose?” he asked. “If the child is not going to survive, let him be kept comfortable and die naturally. There’s no reason for us to kill the child. There’s no reason for us to do this at all.”

A Global Issue

The National Post article said that medical assistance in dying has been available in Canada since 2016, after a landmark court ruling the year earlier opened up the right to assisted dying. The 2016 law was followed by progressively laxer criteria for euthanasia; first, the requirement for the disease to be terminal was removed, followed by the requirement of “acute suffering.”

Since 2016, about 30,000 deaths were brought about through MAID. The program resulted in more than 10,000 deaths last year alone. “Advocates say that number will likely see an even greater spike,” Telegraph-UK wrote.

The article also noted that Canada is not an outlier in the euthanasia debate. Mercy-killing laws exist in Belgium, Colombia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Australia and in certain parts of the United States.

Oregon was the first state to approve medically assisted suicide, with a law going into effect in 1997. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, Washington state and Washington, D.C., have approved similar laws.

Discrimination Against the Disabled

Canada’s proposed new law widening eligibility for legalized murder to include disabled children and infants takes moral bankruptcy to a new level, critics say.

Unlike in Belgium and the Netherlands, the assisted killing procedure in Canada is not restricted to doctors; it can be performed by a nurse practitioner and is not subject to hospital oversight and reviews.

Additionally, doctors in Canada are urged to encourage euthanasia as an option even with patients who don’t have a terminal illness but are suffering from a difficult disability or chronic pain. In many cases, physicians initiate the assisted-dying conversation. They present the practice as an acceptable option, as one of various “treatment” plans.

Dr. Ramona Coelho, a Canadian family physician told the Associated Press, “The whole premise of the Canadian legislation is built on a discriminatory approach to people with disabilities.”

“Most Canadians think that this is a service of compassion offered for people who have no options left, and are being offered death as a way out,” said Coelho. “When, in fact, the system is being applied so liberally and so swiftly to patients, that people are dying who would have recovered with greater care and resources to live.”

“The implication of (Canada’s) law is that a life with disability is automatically less worth living and that in some cases, death is preferable,” wrote the Telegraph-UK about the proposed amendments.

In one case recounted in the Telegraph article, Alan Nichols, a 61-year-old Canadian who had a history of depression, was put to death without his family’s knowledge. In the application Mr. Nichols filled out for euthanasia, the only medical condition he listed was hearing loss.

Mr. Nichols’ family said he lacked the capacity to understand the process and was not suffering “unbearably.” They charged that hospital employees improperly helped him request euthanasia.

The hospital countered that the patient “made a valid request for euthanasia and that, in line with patient privacy, it was not obliged to inform relatives or include them in treatment discussions.”

“Once the only necessary requirement for doctor-assisted death is suicidal fantasy or ideation, the Nichols family’s tragic story will become a feature of Canadian life,” the article said. “Canadians who suffer from mental illness, poverty, or chronic pain frequently cannot get help—but they can get killed.”

Traumatized by what happened to her father in law, Trish Nichols, said: “I am terrified of my husband or another relative being put in the hospital and somehow getting these (euthanasia) forms in their hand.”

Appearing on Fox News with host Tucker Carlson, Professor Charles Camosy, a professor of medical humanities at Creighton School of Medicine, noted that the MAID practice has already been used in Canada rather extensively for several disadvantaged groups.

“We’ve got the homeless, we talked about that last time. The poor. The disabled. Those with chronic pain. And then right before coming on, I researched the physicians group in Quebec that wants to kill newborn infants. That’s what’s coming next,” he told Carlson.

Gaslighting the Public

Billed as health care and cloaked in compassionate language, medically assisted death is described by proponents as a way to preserve human dignity.

That is pure gaslighting, using deceptive language that sanitizes moral corruption, human rights advocates say.

What the system does is invite society to kill the vulnerable under the guise of compassion. The scenarios are frightening. Imagine a teen in a deep funk over a failed exam, a broken friendship or social rejection expressing the wish for assisted death.

Under the projected new law, that request could be legally fulfilled even though teens tend to experience bouts of despondency or depression. The vast majority recover.

To highlight the utter absurdity of the law: Before young Canadians can even obtain driving licenses, the new bill, if passed, would enable them to “consent” to physicians taking their lives.

An article in Common Sense told the story of Kiano Vafaeian, a 20-year-old Canadian who was approved for medically assisted death due to depression and diabetes. The procedure was scheduled for Sept. 22.

On Sept. 7, Kiano’s mother found an email the doctor wrote to her son explaining the MAID process. The mother sprang into action and was able to draw media attention to her son’s case, prompting the doctor to cancel the procedure.

Kiano’s mother was able to halt her son’s death (even though he was over 18) by rallying public outrage against the physician. But if Canada expands its laws regarding medically assisted death, parents of minors will not be able to legally intervene.

Euthanasia Saves Millions in Health Care

Many have pointed to the incentive for Canada’s health care system to prefer death over expensive treatments and support. Canada already speaks of medically assisted death as a policy that can save millions of dollars.

In addition, impoverished people are turning to MAID out of desperation because they cannot access the resources they need or the treatments they require in Canada’s broken healthcare system.

Canada’s minister of Disability Inclusion Carla Qualtrough said in an interview with CBC Radio’s The House, that it should not be easier to access a medically assisted death than to get a wheelchair — but in Canada it is.

The Toronto Star, the largest and most liberal newspaper in the country, detailed how one woman is considering assisted suicide because she cannot find an affordable place to live in her city with wheelchair access. Her tale is becoming a common one.

FirstThings.com recounted the saga of sixty-three-year-old Alan Philips, who recently got approved for assisted suicide after trying for eighteen years to get spinal fusion surgery to relieve his agony. In the dysfunctional socialized medicine system operating in Canada, Philips could not get the surgery and was prescribed opioids instead.

“I cannot get adequate healthcare,” he said in fury. “So I asked MAID to kill me and they said ‘Sure’!”

In another case detailed in the article, 45 year-old Sashya Kovac, a Winnipeg woman suffering from a degenerative disease, died through assisted suicide after her persistent attempts to procure home care were denied.

In an obituary published after her death, she revealed: “Ultimately it was not a genetic disease that took me out, it was a system. There is desperate need for change. That is the sickness that causes so much suffering. Vulnerable people need help to survive. I could have had more time if I had more help.”

Liberal but Uncivilized

“There is lively debate today about when a democracy ceases to be liberal,” notes a NY Times op-ed. “But the advance of euthanasia presents a different question: What if a society remains liberal but ceases to be civilized?”

Citing Canada’s new euthanasia bill, the article goes on to note that it is “barbaric to establish a bureaucratic system that offers death as a treatment for suffering and enlists the healing profession in delivering this “cure.”

“This isn’t ‘a slippery slope argument,’ the articled noted. “You’re not sliding down into a quagmire of evil, you’re already there.”

“When 10,000 people are availing themselves of your euthanasia system every year, you have already entered the dystopia”—a sick society where people are forced to lead wretched, dehumanized lives.

The Times article questions the notion that “human rights encompass a “right” to self-destruction.” It concludes that if left unchecked, the destructive ideas underpinning death-as-another-treatment-option will sound the death knell for liberalism.

#canada #assisted suicide #legalized murder #euthanasia

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rainboas · 6 months

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maybe I'm crazy for saying this but soylent green is not a big deal to me. cannibalism is just like. not that upsetting. worse things can happen to dead bodies. if it were me and I learned my neon green plankton wafers weren't actually plankton but instead human remains I'd probably be like damn that's crazy. anyways im starving pass the soylent green please

#im not saying cannibalism is cool and i have not and probably will never eat human flesh #but idk man people have been eating each other since forever its just not that upsetting to me #especially since we know the corpses in soylent green come from euthanasia patients. so its not like people are getting murdered for it #the only thing id be wary about is whether or not the deceased consented to being eaten after their death #but like if it were me and there was a global food shortage to the scale we see in soylent green... definitely just eat me when i die #like i dont care . im dead as hell

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gottawhump · 2 years

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The End of the Night

217/Mercy

CW/TW: euthanasia/murder, escape, BBU/WRU, medical.

At the end of the night, she gets to patch them up. Sponge off the dried blood. Disinfect the wounds, and bandage the ones still bleeding. Splint the broken bones.

All so they can heal enough to do it again the next night. Or the one after that.

It’s useless, repetitive work, bitter in its futility.

She can’t stand the taste of it, finds it impossible to swallow down, when she’s wiping the blood off Jonas and his friend. He broke the rules by bringing her in, but that didn’t hurt anyone.

All her hard work ruined again.

She feeds the dark-faced cat while the two of them take in a mix of IV fluid and light painkillers, with just a touch of sedative. He allows a few pets along his lanky long body before retreating out of reach, watching her.

She packs up the few belongings in the little cell. She adds a few things.

She spends a night going down internet rabbit holes, until her eyes burn from looking too long at the screen. She gets a possible address.

She makes a decision.

She wishes for more time, but they won’t get it here.

She wakes up Jonas and 932 up finally, late at night.

She goes over their vitals one more time, while making sure they drink water and can walk a little on their own. They’re unsteady and slow. They need more time.

They won’t get it here.

“You need to go.”

They both lose color. 932 nods.

“Where, Mercy?” Jonas asks.

Anywhere but here. “A place, for those like us. A safe house.”

932 looks doubtful, Jonas wary. He says, “Keith will come after us. To pay our-debts.”

“No one here will come after you.”

She sends away as many of her patients as she can. Different directions, different places.

Those she can’t, she puts to the final sleep, painless and gentle. With softness and comfort and deep regrets.

She gives the same mercy to the guards, to the owner and others like him. Without regrets.

It is very quiet when she leaves.

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#not sure if whump #euthanasia mention #murder #escape #217 #Mercy #909 #Jonas #932 #bbu/wru #don’t piss off the medic

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hello-nichya-here · 2 years

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Do you think that minors, while being 100% serious in their right mind, are allowed to ask to be euthanized and/or if living causes them a lot of pain? Do people have the right to choose to die?

Any person that isn't seen as mentally ready to drive, drink, have sex, vote, have full finantial independence, live alone, get a tattoo, get cosmetic surgery, move to a different continent by themselves, work full time, get married, raise/adopt a child, start their own business, run for president, be held fully accountable for any crimes they commit - just basically do whatever they want with their own life, and deal with the consequences, like any adult is legally entitled to - CANNOT, in any circumstance, "decide" to end said life. Child exploitation laws exist for a reason.

Now, about people having the right to end their own life, we need to remember that NO ONE just "chooses" to die. Something is forcing their hand.

Maybe they have depression, maybe they're struggling to move past a traumatic experience, maybe they're being abused, maybe they're facing some kind of oppression and feel is pointless to keep fighting for basic rights, maybe they just took a look at the horrible state the world is in and lost hope, maybe they have no money and don't want to slowly starve to death. There's ALWAYS something.

No matter what, the solution is NOT letting them give into despair, but trying to fix the problem. Killing these people would not be mercy or respecting their wishes, it would be taking advantage of them while they're vulnerable. That's not euthanasia, it's just straight up murder - often systematic murder (just look at how many diseabled people are victims of "mercy killing", by their own families, because some people see disability as worse than death).

And even when we look at situations where euthanasia could be seen as an option, when people are suffering from an incurable illness that is keeping them in a constant state of physical and mental agony, we cannot forget that many deseases that were seen as a death sentence now have cures because doctors wouldn't give up on their patients.

Even the ones that don't have cures yet are easier to prevent. For exemple, there are many people that are HIV positive and never develop AIDS (which was once seen as "the gay plague" and so goverments refused to prevent it from spreading because they thought it'd "only kill the right people") and can even have children without infecting their partner or their child with the virus.

Life is unfair and that means death can sometimes feel like the only option. It isn't.

#asks #death #euthanasia #ableism #homophobia #aids #hiv #abuse #murder #systematic oppression #mental illness #triggering subjects #important

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ecoamerica · 25 days

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