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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

More than likely depression isn't the mental health condition this targets.

However you need the recommending and preforming doctor to sign off on it and be deemed able to consent the day of.

If you were suicidal the day they go to do it then you'd be disqualified.

It sucks for dementia patients because they can't sign off "when my mind goes". They have to do it before then.

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If you were suicidal the day they go to do it then you'd be disqualified.

If someone is not suicidal the day they go to do it then they won’t go through with it. Why would you choose to die if you don't want to die? I don't understand this sentence.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dying on your own terms isn't suicidal in the sense of mental illness/depression.

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is quite literally assisted suicide though 

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is a massive over-simplification. MAID gives people the ability to die on their own terms.

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca -2 points 2 days ago

It's not an over-simplification that's literally just what its called. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide