- Michigan Senate Democrats propose bills legalizing physician-assisted death for terminally ill patients
- The concept, legalized in 10 states and Washington, D.C., remains controversial
- Supporters say it gives terminally ill patients more autonomy. Critics argue it’s ‘not the compassionate answer’
No free healthcare though.
https://stateofreform.com/featured/2023/09/rep-carrie-rheingans-introduces-bill-that-would-establish-universal-healthcare-in-michigan/
Well that shut me the fuck up! Hell yes!
Here’s the rep’s website if you’d like to reach out.
https://www.carrierheingans.com/
I hope that happens. We have been trying to do it here in Washington (as mentioned in the article) but we cannot Constitutionally have an income tax. I think the last initiative trying to pass it had a mix of payroll taxes and capital gains taxes.
And this is an important point.
Without free healthcare, assisted suicide becomes an economic choice.
Pull the plug doc I’m in pain is what we want. Not pull the plug doc, my family will never be able to pay these bills!
That would be great, but there is no reason one should be dependent on the other.
Actually, without free healthcare assisted suicide can be as much about economic incentives as will to live.
I.e. wanting to die so your spouse doesn’t lose all their retirement paying your medical bills.
That is just another form of suffering people shouldn’t be forced to live through if they do not want to.
Some would argue that since the ability to remove the suffering is possible, that we should do that instead of being happy a dystopian solution like assisted suicide be praised as an acceptable option. Suicide is already an option. Having it be assisted just gives them another way to milk one last drop of blood from a stone.
I don’t agree the ability to remove suffering exists on this world. Even free healthcare and universal basic income won’t do that.
The world is already a dystopia. Forcing people to continue to suffer is the most dystopian to me. Not everyone can easily and especially painlessly end their own life.
Removing entirety might be impossible, but it can certainly be lessened by large degrees.
I’m not advocating against assisted suicide, people should be able to die peacefully and painlessly when they choose. I am saying that it shouldn’t be the solution to a broken system. Fix the systems so people don’t feel the need to off themselves just to get away from it.
We’re never going to fix the system. And even if we could, I don’t think people should have to suffer waiting. That is the problem with saying “well, we need to fix x, y, and z first.” The people suffering have no control over x, y, and z.
In actuality to our current status, yeah very unlikely. I was speaking more to ideals.