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onehundredpetunias t1_je73eth wrote

How about we fix the system so that dying people can access care that allows a comfortable, natural death without finances being a factor? That's death with dignity IMO.

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lucascorso21 t1_je76osf wrote

There’s a lot of horrible diseases and cancers where comfort is not an option.

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Avocadoexpresss OP t1_je76b45 wrote

Why not both? Watching someone still suffering receiving palliative care on a death sentence is not currently helping. Someone who is seeking mercy should receive it. Being pumped full of drugs just simply to keep your heart beating is not living, and those that wish not to simply exist shouldn’t have to…especially while suffering

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onehundredpetunias t1_je7cdw9 wrote

There's enough evidence showing that many of the people who choose assisted dying are doing so because of financial concerns or because of burden of care to make me believe that we need to fix that first.

A natural death does not have to be painful suffering.

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