Estimating how long somebody has to live is impossible to do accurately a lot of the time. Yet another danger of any #AssistedSuicide legislation.

It’s infuriating that so few non disabled people are up in arms about coercive MAiD policies. Disabled patients are ending their lives because they can’t access the healthcare or social supports they need. Some HCWs are proactively RECOMMENDING euthanasia as an option to us 🧵

Kelly Laurel Anderson happened to me. went for a hearing loss issue which kind of happens when you pass 50. Guess they figured since I was blind already, proposing maid as a solution was entirely reasonable! Wish I was shocked but I wasn't

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“This cruel ethic sends the message that many lives aren’t worth living. The urge to usher patients into premature graves should not be underestimated. In Canada, there were over 15,000 state-sanctioned assisted suicides in 2023." spuc.org.uk/Article/385729…

#AssistedDying is very unethical, worst outcome for medicine - gives a right to 'providers' to end life for Patient who may request it because they're struggling with poor social care provision, a preventable hardship. What leads to it is unethical, cornered into a death service

#AssistedLiving is more in line with medical ethics, not to end the life of a patient who is not dying (this opens Pandora's Box for mental health, do you stop suicide prevention?). #AssistedLiving more expensive to deliver, which might explain emphasis on pushing option to die.

I’m begging people to understand that privilege plays a significant role in one’s ability to survive as a disabled person. In Canada - it also plays a role in whether or not you end up having euthanasia “suggested” to you as a treatment option. 🧵/1

But make no mistake - disabled patients (especially those with the least privilege) are increasingly finding themselves facing “suggestions” of euthanasia. They’re having healthcare workers proactively bring it up - even when they’ve made it clear they don’t want to die /10

It’s eugenics - and we need to push back. Too many people are dying because they feel like they’re a burden (like Normand Meunier in Quebec) or because they can’t access safe healthcare. People need support, love and compassion … not coercion and abandonment. /13

If you allow #assistedsuicide for some who are suffering but not others, you create inequity and a hierarchy of suffering. If you approve suicide for anyone who suffers, you fatally undermine all suicide prevention. Where do you draw the line? I don't think you can.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland has raised concerns about Holyrood assisted suicide plans. It notes that the definition of terminal illness given in Liam McArthur's Bill could catch disabled people who have "years of life ahead of them".

We also raised concerns about this issue in our submission to a Health Committee call for views, and warned that people with anorexia, and dementia could also be caught by the current, broad wording.

Do the BMA needs to be told to see all this before it makes noise? Patient centred care is gone because of profit motives. Yellow unions need public campaigners or anon doctors to tell them it's Americanisation. Let's hope this problem is noted.

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Sorry people with disabilities, the government of Canada announced that your disability should not be mentioned unless it's really, really relevant "to the story". And yes, this the same government that legalized euthanasia on the basis of a physical disability alone.

Alexander Raikin For some reason, reading those screenshots reminded me of the stages of genocide. Three stages in one: classification, discrimination, and dehumanization. Now we're no longer people to them, we're adjectives. Irrelevant adjectives. Not relevant to their story. Pejoratives.

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