#doctorskillingpatients — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: death, killing
"Then again, perhaps Western Europe is returning to pre-modern norms about the sanctity of life and the value of disabled children. Plutarch recorded that disabled babies in Sparta were left to die of exposure. No less a thinker than Aristotle wrote approvingly of the practice. The key difference, it appears, is that the Dutch do it with needles instead."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/25/the-netherlands-western-morality-assisted-dying/
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CW: killing
41% of Canadians support doctors refusing MAID for religious reasons
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/41-of-canadians-say-doctors-should-be-allowed-to-refuse-maid-for-religious-reasons"Gabrielle Peters, a disabled writer and policy analyst, said in an interview with National Post: “The idea of intentionally killing somebody is something that many people object to, and so I think this is a pretty fundamental right that we should be preserving in our society".
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rljcoelho: "Same-day euthanasia. Delirium. Dementia. Caregiver burnout. Capacity Concerns A patient “vigorously roused” to consent. Another denied palliative hospice but MAiD given the same day These are real cases. https://spcare.bmj.com/content/early/2026/01/27/spcare-2025-006046"
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Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z): "Healthcare systems should provide healthcare instead of killing people. Well done to the French senate in resisting the blandishments of the death lobbyists." | nitter
https://nitter.net/yuanyi_z/status/2014423825740419120#m -
"In a June 2025 poll by the campaign group Care Not Killing, 65% agreed that the government should prioritise sorting out palliative, social and end-of-life care before considering whether to introduce assisted dying. Given the damning evidence of underfunding in end-of-life care, the message that the members of both parliaments should now take on board is that assisted living matters too."
#ukpol #MAiD #AssistedDying #DoctorsKillingPatients
#TheGuardian