Some drug user activists have likened the move to "eugenics" and say Canada should be funding more harm reduction.
  • zaphod@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Good to see at least someone around here has some fucking clue regarding the purpose of this law…

    1. Just “feeling mentally unwell”, as another commenter put it, is not enough to qualify. The law specifically requires the applicant “experience unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable” and “be in an advanced state of decline that cannot be reversed”
    2. If someone makes a “request for medical assistance in dying, 2 independent medical practitioners (physicians or nurse practitioners) must assess it.”

    From: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html

    And that’s just a couple of the high bars one must clear to qualify.

    But, I can say this about Lemmy: given the quality of the discussion on this post, this place really has turned into an excellent replacement for Reddit!