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minus-squareageedizzle@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-21 month ago 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.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoDying on your own terms isn’t suicidal in the sense of mental illness/depression.
minus-squareageedizzle@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 month agoIt is quite literally assisted suicide though
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThat is a massive over-simplification. MAID gives people the ability to die on their own terms.
minus-squareageedizzle@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 month agoIt’s not an over-simplification that’s literally just what its called. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide
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.
Dying on your own terms isn’t suicidal in the sense of mental illness/depression.
It is quite literally assisted suicide though
That is a massive over-simplification. MAID gives people the ability to die on their own terms.
It’s not an over-simplification that’s literally just what its called. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide