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Nov 13, 2022

If you think this is an exaggeration, you may not fully grok the scope of this program as it *already* exists after just 5 years commonsense.news/p/scheduled-to

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To be clear, Canada won't allow the first assisted mental illness suicides until next year To my mind, this is just one segment of a completely unavoidable slippery slope once you eliminate the requirement for terminal illness/foreseeability of death, as Canada has done

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All suicidal people are in great pain or distress. In all likelihood most of them have tried various things for relief and failed. The natural settling place for criteria like this is that anyone who wants to kill themselves will have a much easier time doing it.

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There are definitely folks who believe personal liberty should extend to procuring services like this with little gatekeeping, but I think most people intuit how devastating this would be for communities where so many people have lost a parent, sibling, or especially a child

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The ripple effects of a suicide within my own immediate family have been permanent and severe. My mom doesn't even think of herself as the same person who existed before it occurred. I don't think most people are capable of gaming this out at scale

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I don't think I'm overstating my case when I say that suicide should be conceptualized as something that kills one consenting person and may simultaneously lobotomize several nonconsenting people

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