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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on February 25, 2020, 12:41:22 pm
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The Canadian government has put forward a bill to make medically-assisted death available to people who are not terminally ill.
The bill opens the door to allowing Canadians with degenerative illnesses like cerebral palsy to seek medically-assisted death.
Health minister Patty Hajdu said the proposal would protect vulnerable people while giving Canadians autonomy.
It was introduced in parliament on Monday and has cross-party support.
The legislation was precipitated by a 2019 Quebec Superior Court decision that struck down the requirement for patients to prove their natural death was "reasonably foreseeable" in order to seek to terminate their life.
Justice Christine Baudouin said the requirement infringed on the "life, liberty and security of the person" and was thus unconstitutional.
She sided with the plaintiffs, Nicole Gladu, 74, and Jean Truchon, 51, in the high profile case last autumn.
Both plaintiffs had degenerative illnesses that had worsened to the point that they had lost all their autonomy. They experienced persistent and irremediable suffering, their lawyer Jean-Pierre Ménard argued.
Mr Truchon had cerebral palsy, and Ms Gladu had post-polio syndrome, and both wanted medical assistance to end their lives.
However, advocates for people with disabilities, including the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, have said the court decision sent the message that "having a disability is a fate worse than death".
They urged the government to appeal the Quebec court ruling, which it declined to do.
On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government brought forward the assisted death bill.
It would create a two-track system for determining a person's eligibility. One track for people who are terminally ill, and one track for people who are not.
Patients in both tracks must prove they are facing "intolerable" suffering.
The bill would explicitly exclude eligibility for individuals suffering solely from mental illness.
The minority government will need the support of parliamentarians from other parties to pass the bill. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has previously signalled support for expanding assisted dying.
Media captionShould people with a mental illness be helped to die?
Canada made medically-assisted death legal in September 2016, becoming one of the few places in the world where it is legal to help sick people die.
More than 13,000 Canadians have been given a medically-assisted death, according to data provide by the justice department. Two-thirds of patients receiving an assisted death cited cancer as the underlying reason, followed by neurological conditions and cardiovascular or respiratory conditions.
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Medically assisted deaths counted for 1.89% of all deaths in Canada in 2019.
The bill's proposed changes also ease some safeguards previously put in place for people who are terminally ill, such as allowing advanced consent for people who are dying but may lose capacity for consent.
Under Canadian law, patients with diseases like dementia were eligible for a medically assisted death, but had to have it administered before they lost their capacity to legally give their consent.
The government said this criteria led people to end their lives earlier, "robbing them of time".
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Flucht in die Krankenheit......Sigmund Freud.
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I have degenerative bone disese ,and advanced arthritis in my right foot,but I dont want to die because of it
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Jaysus Dalyer....they'd put dogs down with less health problems than yourself!!
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Jaysus Dalyer....they'd put dogs down with less health problems than yourself!!
I've opened a hospital for terminally ill dogs in Switzerland, it's called DOGNITAS 8)
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I also have animia,asthma,and fukin type 2 diabetes.doesent stop me from walking though
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You are a bit of a collectors item...wouldn't you say???
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Won't be long before "assisted" becomes "mandatory". We're seeing the new version of Logan's Run.
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Its all part of the new Moral Less mode of Living Abortion to prevent Birth and Euthanasia to clear up the deadwood and save on Pensions and medical care .
EVENING HERALD 20/1 /2030 .Big Dommos Sons Obituary .The Family and friends of the Late Big Dommos Son late of the Flats .Gathered in the Pub to spend the death bounty .Big Dommos sons daughter said "Dad would of approved of us taking the bounty and having him put to sleep .Our Grandad Big Dommo once got Petal his Jack Russell bitch put down so there is a long family tradition of doing the right thing .The Mobile Church was parked in the Carpark of the pub for anybody wishing to take communion or confess to the Digifeshion 600 the latest automated confession robot .
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Big Society.....Sesame Society.........all about you being wholly dependent on the state and a vassal of, therein. If you defy this new society...you'll be diagnosed with ODD..........oppositional defiance disorder and committed to the nearest kulak plot for penitence.
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Germany's highest court has ruled that a 2015 law banning professional assisted suicide was unconstitutional, as it robbed terminally ill patients of "the right to a self-determined death".
Judge Andreas Vosskuhle said the right included "the freedom to take one's life and seek help doing so".
The ruling is a major victory for the terminally ill patients, doctors and assisted suicide organisations who brought the case, complaining that the existing law went too far.
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" How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in it!"
Shakin Stevens
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I absolutely agree that if one wants to takes ones own life they should have every right to do so, it's their life. Who the fcuk do they think they are telling people what to do with their lives and making criminals out of them for doing something with their property that they want and in my opinion have every right to do? Cheeky cnuts.
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Bring back the death penalty for suicide, I say.
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We are in the age of Kalyug, the downfall of man.
According to the Granth.
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euthanasia goes on all the time in ireland.
I know loads of aulwans and aulflas who went in to a home/hospital and were "made comfortable."
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Plenty of cunts on here could do with being euthanized...or ermanized!!
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euthanasia goes on all the time in ireland.
I know loads of aulwans and aulflas who went in to a home/hospital and were "made comfortable."
True....pathways the programme is called....palliative murder.
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Yes wont have to worry about it soon.....Night of the living dead...driving cor(i)onas at you....1969 epic film comes true...
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You're right there Coolio............did you ever think the plot of The Walking Dead was really about those 40 somethings trying to dodge the zombie Millenials with "euthansaia" on their minds?
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Went back to work for the first time last night,now this bleedin coronavirus might sideline us again if it gets out of hand
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I see The Coronas have gone off the grid now altogether,,,,great band live.
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Went back to work for the first time last night,now this bleedin coronavirus might sideline us again if it gets out of hand
I wash my hands of it. 8)