I don’t like MAID, but I don’t like the sort of illnesses that cause people to want MAID even worse. If a medical professional can look at somebody’s condition, mental or physical, and say “This person’s life is probably not going to get meaningfully better using the treatments we have currently available.” then I think it is inhumane to tell them they HAVE to live with it, “just in case”. It’s their life. They’re the one suffering the illness. Let them choose. MAID does, once a medical professional validates it is a real issue. If we disagree with a particular medical professional’s assessment, then let them face justice. But other than that specific situation, people have a right to decide what to do with their own lives, I think.
I don’t like MAID, but I don’t like the sort of illnesses that cause people to want MAID even worse. If a medical professional can look at somebody’s condition, mental or physical, and say “This person’s life is probably not going to get meaningfully better using the treatments we have currently available.” then I think it is inhumane to tell them they HAVE to live with it, “just in case”. It’s their life. They’re the one suffering the illness. Let them choose. MAID does, once a medical professional validates it is a real issue. If we disagree with a particular medical professional’s assessment, then let them face justice. But other than that specific situation, people have a right to decide what to do with their own lives, I think.