NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 3 months agoCanada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dyingbreachmedia.caexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up180cross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.zip
arrow-up180external-linkCanada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dyingbreachmedia.caNightOwl@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 3 months agomessage-square42fedilinkcross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.zip
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoMore than likely depression isn’t the mental health condition this targets. However you need the recommending and preforming doctor to sign off on it and be deemed able to consent the day of. If you were suicidal the day they go to do it then you’d be disqualified. It sucks for dementia patients because they can’t sign off “when my mind goes”. They have to do it before then.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoDying on your own terms isn’t suicidal in the sense of mental illness/depression.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThat is a massive over-simplification. MAID gives people the ability to die on their own terms.
More than likely depression isn’t the mental health condition this targets.
However you need the recommending and preforming doctor to sign off on it and be deemed able to consent the day of.
If you were suicidal the day they go to do it then you’d be disqualified.
It sucks for dementia patients because they can’t sign off “when my mind goes”. They have to do it before then.
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Dying on your own terms isn’t suicidal in the sense of mental illness/depression.
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That is a massive over-simplification. MAID gives people the ability to die on their own terms.
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