On granting #assistedsuicide to people with #learningdisabilities and #Autism

"in around two-thirds of the 39 cases analysed, the characteristics of ASD or intellectual disabilities were the “sole or major” cause of suffering, which were found to be severe enough to approve assisted dying.

In eight of the 39 cases, this unbearable suffering was only related to the learning disability or autism."
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/research-and-innovation/ethical-debate-needed-on-assisted-suicide-for-people-with-learning-disabilities-11-07-2023/?fbclid=IwAR0no4bhdyQU3e84k08CYXhurqkJp5ndDkufmO_3yA3b49-lz-YnUEGY5JM

#Woman (#NorahVincent) comes to understand man's plight. Is so broken by the #Bleakness of it she commits #Suicide.

#Feminism #Feminists #Feminist
#Female #FemalePrivilege
#Male #MalePrivilege
#RadicalFeminism #RadicalFeminist #RadicalFeminists
#Misogyny #Misandry #AssistedSuicide

Health agency in #Canada is promoting #euthanasia and #assistedsuicide in slideshows viewed by the elderly

https://newstarget.com/2023-07-14-health-agency-canada-euthanasia-pension-packages-elderly.html

Health agency in #Canada is promoting #euthanasia and #assistedsuicide in slideshows viewed by the elderly

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-14-health-agency-canada-euthanasia-pension-packages-elderly.html

#Antilife group lobbies for BC #CanadaCatholichospitals to provide #ASSISTEDSUICIDE

https://newstarget.com/2023-07-07-antilife-lobbies-bc-catholic-hospitals-assisted-suicide.html

Experts fear Dutch #assistedsuicide law is straying far from its original intent

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-05-autistic-intellectually-handicapped-euthanized-in-netherlands.html

#eugenics #euthanasia

She just couldn't deal with the horrific #sideeffects

https://newstarget.com/2023-07-04-actress-katarina-pavelek-suicide-covid-booster-shots.html

#KatarinaPavelek #assistedsuicide #vaccinedeaths

She just couldn't deal with the horrific #sideeffects

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-04-actress-katarina-pavelek-suicide-covid-booster-shots.html

#KatarinaPavelek #assistedsuicide #vaccinedeaths

41-Year-Old Hollywood #Actress Kills Herself By #AssistedSuicide Following #COVID Booster Illness https://thewashingtonstandard.com/41-year-old-hollywood-actress-kills-herself-by-assisted-suicide-following-covid-booster-illness/

RT from Gabriella Swerling (@GabriellaSwerl)

People suffering with mental health problems have just as much right to die as those who are physically sick, #Dignitas, the #assistedsuicide group, has told a committee of MPs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/27/dignitas-mentally-ill-people-right-to-assisted-dying/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/GabriellaSwerl/status/1673983755168411650

A ‘Good Death’?
Oddly, the word that comes to mind is Euthanasia. The word originates from the Greek "eu-thanatos", good death. It started out with an essay written in 1870 by a Samuel Williams in which he suggested that

"in all cases of hopeless and painful illness, the medical attendant was to administer chloroform to destroy consciousness and p
https://dbobstoner.com/a-good-death/
#DeathCaf #Life #AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide #Dignitas #DignityInDying #Euthanasia #Methodist

#Canada attempting to expand legal #assistedsuicide program to allow #mentallyill to be euthanized

https://newstarget.com/2023-06-16-canada-euthanasia-program-assisted-suicide-mentally-ill.html

#Canada attempting to expand legal #assistedsuicide program to allow #mentallyill to be euthanized

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-16-canada-euthanasia-program-assisted-suicide-mentally-ill.html

Survey: Nearly 3 in 10 #Canadians believe #poor and #homeless should be eligible for #assistedsuicide

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-30-survey-canadas-poor-homeless-eligible-assisted-suicide.html

Exploring #AssistedSuicide Laws: Rethinking #Dignity, Agency, and Interdependence. In Canada, in 35.7% of #euthanasia cases, patients believed that they were a “burden on family, friends or caregivers”. #AssistedDying isn't a liberal or progressive policy, but simply a further commodification of human beings- judging way people are "worth" in a capitalist society
https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2023/05/26/exploring-assisted-suicide-laws-rethinking-dignity-agency-and-interdependence

🔴 Opinion - Assisted Dying Bill: we need to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly deaths

Wrote another personal piece regarding assisted dying, and the lack of conversations around death itself.

"We need to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to death"

#death #assistedSuicide #AssistedDying #euthanasia #UK #News

https://www.nationalworld.com/opinion/assisted-dying-bill-we-need-to-talk-about-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-deaths-4154914

A group of #philosophers, and a group of faith leaders, disagree on #euthanasia proposal for #Scotland
#AssistedSuicide
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/ethics-experts-back-assisted-dying-for-terminally-ill-people

A French citizens' convention supports active assistance in dying using different models.

The 184 randomly selected members of the French citizens' convention on assisted dying believe that the current legal framework must evolve. They put 81 proposals on the table, including assisted suicide and euthanasia.

The convention was to provide the linchpin for a "national debate on assisted dying" launched in September.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/04/02/french-citizens-convention-supports-active-assistance-in-dying-using-different-models_6021469_7.html

#France #AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide #Euthanasia

I think, i have made it abundantly clear, that i am usually a huge fan of the death panel podcast. But the recent patron-episode left me puzzled. For one of the first times i strongly disagree with their stance.

In the podcast Cassandra Kislenko and Beatrice Adler-Bolton discuss MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying - what a horrible name, i concur) and Canadian austerity. Adler-Bolton keeps saying what a complex issue assisted suicide represents, yet they end up only describing cases where it went horribly wrong. Adler-Bolton also says, that they are not talking about a conspiracy theory, yet in the subtext of the episode they hint strongly that with this program the Canadian government is basically trying to kill off disabled people.

While i see their general point, when other options are still available, they should be evaluated and explored. At the same time i can still think of so many cases, where #AssistedSuicide has to be a valid, non-stigmatized and easily available option, that allows people to leave on their own accord and with dignity.

Because what is the alternative? Should they commit suicide through iffy means and butcher themselves?

My life has been a living hell because of #LongCOVID and i can only wish that it would be easier to receive help, not necessarily from the state, to end this soon. Looking at the state of the world, with the climate and migration crisis, rampant sexism, racism and the rise of fascism, does not exactly help me change my mind.

A lot of the disagreement i have might have to do with a path-goal-discussion. While i agree, that the goal has to be that the state SHOULD take care of the disabled and chronically ill, this is just not the case now. That late stage neoliberal and racialized capitalism is racist, ableist, sexist, anti-queer? Granted! And all this must be changed. But it would require a system change and it does not look like this will happen any time soon, or does it?

Meanwhile people suffer in their life-situations to the point of it being so fucking unbearable, that they contemplate jumping off the fucking bridges.

So for now, we have to make assisted suicide an option, fight against the stigma and most certainly not deliver talking points to the christian ultra-right, who is also strongly opposed to this.

As an anarchist i am of course not thinking of state but of communal, #MutualAid
solutions. Here in so-called Switzerland there are non-profit organizations who offer assisted suicide in certain, very limited situations (mostly old age). It's also fucking expensive. That is kind of okayish, but i can think of much better models.

I would be interested to hear your thoughts, but please keep it civil. Concern trolling and sea lioning gets blocked.

Good article on #AssistedDying by Moderator of #ChurchOfScotland General Assembly, Iain Greenshields. The proposals before the #ScottishParliament should be concerning for everyone, whether they are religious or not. I hope there will be much more debate about this dangerous and illiberal proposal
#euthanasia #AssistedSuicide
https://churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/articles/care-for-others-is-at-the-heart-of-opposition-to-assisted-dying