Committee wants assisted-dying law to include mentally ill, 'mature minors'

Health | 207488 hits | Feb 26 12:36 am | Posted by: N_Fiddledog

A parliamentary committee said the federal government make doctor-assisted dying immediately available to all adults with "grievous and irremediable" medical conditions -- including mental illnesses -- and eventually allow “mature minors” to also end thei

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by andyt
Fri Feb 26, 2016 3:12 pm
Good for the committee. people who are against assisted death are just doing it for their own comfort and peace of mind. The person that wants to die is not suffering. And good for including mental health as a qualifying condition, we're not nearly as good at "treating" it as we like to think we are. And someone deeply depressed because of their life situation that is unlikely to change, who are we to deny him their right to end their life in a painless way.
by BartSimpson
Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:16 pm
Yeah, murdering people who are not competent enough to make informed consent is murder.

http://brucelevine.net/what-happened-af ... itability/

Ridding society of burdensome individuals was much of what the “eugenics movement” was about, and this movement was a significant force in the United States and Great Britain.By 1928 in the United States, 21 states had compulsory sterilization laws, most targeting “lunatics” (as the mentally ill were commonly called).While the United States and Great Britain were most responsible for igniting the eugenics movement, it was Nazi Germany, with both massive sterilization and murder (called “euthanasia” by the Nazis), which acted most decisively to accomplish its goals.

Wrapping this shit in a 21st Century liberal-approved label doesn't cut it. It's still murder and if I ever get to say anything about it then anyone committing this kind of crime against humanity will hang for it.
by BeaverFever
Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:25 pm
No, a person would still have to be found competent. You can be mentally ill and still be competent.

Don't forget: America incarcerates and executes the mentally ill and mentally challenged all the time, using a very aggressive and broad definition of competence.
by andyt
Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:28 pm
"BeaverFever" said
America incarcerates and executes the mentally ill and mentally challenged all the time, using a very aggressive and broad definition of competence.

Yeah, but where's the fun in that when they ask for it?
by BartSimpson
Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:42 pm
"BeaverFever" said
No, a person would still have to be found competent. You can be mentally ill and still be competent.

Don't forget: America incarcerates and executes the mentally ill and mentally challenged all the time, using a very aggressive and broad definition of competence.

And I'm against that, too, but primarily because most of those convictions are bullshit and the mentally ill are easy targets for victimization by cops and prosecutors who are just out to "make their bones". Actual justice all too often has fuck all to do with such convictions.
by N_Fiddledog
Fri Feb 26, 2016 5:21 pm

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