from Hacker News

One third of Canadians fine with prescribing assisted suicide for homelessness

by rayrey on 6/21/23, 4:52 AM with 43 comments

• by UtopiaPunk on 6/21/23, 6:16 AM

  Horrifying. Absolutely barbaric that we cannot house people, and that some more fortunate people would rather that the poor die.

  I'm not exactly sure where I stand on limiting an individual's choice to end their life. But we should care about why they feel life is not worth living. If there is a problem that could be solved, we should try to solve the problem.

  Bleak as hell.

• by codetrotter on 6/21/23, 5:12 AM

  > Another 28 per cent pegged “homelessness” as an appropriate bar to qualify for MAID.

  > And 20 per cent of respondents were fine with MAID being handed out to anybody for any reason. In other words, one fifth of respondents agreed with the sentiment “medical assistance in dying should always be allowed, regardless of who requests it.”

  The headline is focusing on homelessness as reason for assisted suicide, but as we can see a lot of people think it should be available to everyone, for any reason. Which makes sense. If someone does not want to stay alive, why should they have to remain living?

• by Simulacra on 6/21/23, 3:19 PM

  This is bleak. Makes me think that one day we will have government sponsored "sleep houses" where people just go to die because they feel like it.

• by throwawaysleep on 6/21/23, 5:05 AM

  If someone wants to end their life over poverty, you preventing them is about making you feel better as "we don't want to be that kind of country" rather than them. It is not about their desires at all.

• by senectus1 on 6/21/23, 5:55 AM

  wtf. this is horrendous.

  Homelessness is very often FORCED on people out of shit political policies and outright naked greediness.

  I'm astounded that this number is being presented... I hope its not accurate.

• by rambojohnson on 6/21/23, 5:07 PM

  very bleak, even bleaker still are the sociopaths in these threads dismissing poverty or environmental conditions and just shrugging an okay on assisted suicide. truly disheartening and disgusting the fact that people like this exist. I question their possibly traumatic upbringing...

• by FreshStart on 6/21/23, 5:33 AM

  There is a whole subspecies aka neuro divergent behavior out there adapted to heinous muder in bad times and bribed into good behavior with economic surplus. Once the situational loop goes over the top, all sorts of wild things crawl out of the woodwork. Including large parts of the population on the schizoid spectre under stress, ready to saw the bread factory into nuts and bolts, to satisfy some loop deformed instincts.

  The ideal human of the enlightenment era is dead for a while now, but that spectre of a interest rational being refuses to follow. Let's find out if our "new" social implants hold up under pressure.