[seventhtiger]

For the same reason I'm against capital punishment. I don't trust the state with the due dilegence to have direct power over life and death. What happens when care is available but insurance figures assisted death is cheaper? The fact that someone could look at the healthcare system and say "give them the option to kill people" is wild. You can say whatever you want about criteria and process, then I want you to think of the million ways things go wrong when lofty goals are transformed into bureaucracy.

[rightbyte]

I think you viewpoint is very reasonable. There is way too little focus on 'how can this be missused' and 'what are the incentives'. More often than not the critique is hand waived away with some hard on crime tough talk.

[tejohnso]

> I don't trust the state with the due dilegence

Me neither. That's why I'm glad that in any jurisdiction I've seen it available, it always comes down to the patient's choice.

> I want you to think of the million ways things go wrong

Nothing is perfect but if someone is suffering months or potentially years of pain I'm glad that they have the option to choose to end it legally.

> The fact that someone could look at the healthcare system and say "give them the option to kill people" is wild.

Nobody says that, maybe that's why it seems so wild. It's the patient that has the option, not the system. "Give patients the choice of end of life treatment that they prefer" is more like it.

> due dilegence to have direct power over life and death

How do you feel about police carrying firearms with authority to kill base on high pressure, low time, individual decision making?

[squigz]

What happens when care is available but insurance decides you don't get it, and you die anyway?

[Thorrez]

Assisted death is sometimes used by people who don't have a terminal illness. And there's the worry that insurance is more likely to deny treatment coverage now that a cheaper alternative (assisted death) is available.

>The nonprofit organization Inclusion Canada regularly hears from people with disabilities who are offered euthanasia, including one disabled woman whose physiotherapist suggested it when she sought help for a bruised hip, said executive vice president Krista Carr.

>“Our response to the intolerable suffering of people with disabilities is: ‘Your life is not worth living,'” she said. “We’ll just offer them the lethal injection, and we’ll offer it readily.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/some-health-care-workers-...

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/09/16/should-e...