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My grandfather took the option a while back when nit was pretty new and the eugenics angle hadn't become entangled. He was dying of COPD and chose to cut things off on his own terms surrounded by family instead of letting himself degrade for maybe years and putting my grandmother through all that. That was the situation this was advertised as when it was under debate for legislation and then a couple years later, really a very short period of time all of this awful shit that was not at all part of the deal suddenly came with it.
Exactly, there are absolutely legitimate cases like that, but thanks to capitalism the whole thing has become a vehicle for low key eugenics.
What is odd is just how fast that rug got pulled out. I'm friends with a few people in medical jobs and they all encouraged to sign petitions to make right to die legal and all thatand the terms NEVER EVER had anything close to cases outside the already terminal. I think there was an assumption of medical ethics.
indeed
dam you got bombed for this
lol yeah