Is it true that MAID suggests that being poor makes life not worth living?
Check out this eye-opening article about poverty, disability, and medically assisted death: [Link]
#poverty #disability #MAID #universalbasicincome #medicalbills
Government’s Definition of Universal Basic Income
– 2000 considered universal basic income
– People on disability receive about half this amount
Priced Out of Living
– MAID qualifications expanding
– Illegal acceptance of MAID for those in poverty
– Suggesting MAID as the first option in most cases
Life Saving Care Disparities
– Those making under 40k a year without a clear disability don’t qualify for free oral care
– Discrepancies in healthcare access based on income and disability status
Stay informed and advocate for equal access to healthcare regardless of economic status!
Thinning the herd.
Fuck, that’s grim
Nobody wants 1000s of people on the streets that have nothing to lose, but thats just a lesson to be learned after all the rioting and arson.
Yes; in Canada MAID is a de-facto eugenics program.
There’s a reason media outlets have floated public opinion polls on thins like, for instance, whether MAID is “an acceptable alternative to homelessness”.
I’d apply for MAID if I didn’t have a wife that would miss me.
MAID is my retirement plan
I mean technically yes because then I cant stuff another rich persons ass with my work.
But its still fucked up
dont worry, some liberal/centrist genocidal maniac will come and tell you its not true we dont let people die from lack of healthcare 🙂
i got people actually coming in my dm telling me i was faking my disability cause “actually disabled” people dont talk like me.
welcome to eugenics.
I’m pretty sure this is wrong. My girlfriend had a severe condition for almost 20 years. Her conditions were unbearable, but she was not guaranteed to die in 6 months. We went back and forth with her physicians and hospice, but no one would stick their neck out to authorize MAID. She was destitute, so that was clearly not an option. We had to travel to Switzerland where they have better laws. I feel a huge loss, but her suffering is over, and she is finally at rest.
We don’t have that in the USA yet for the most part but people die of abscessed teeth and other treatable medical conditions all the time.
MAID is my retirement plan
Thank you for posting this! It’s very hard to explain to people how sinister MAID really is. They are making life impossible for use, destroying healthcare and setting the poor and mentally ill up to fail.
It’s very reasonable to opt out of personhood, withholding the only thing you have left to hurt your oppressors.
People act like poor folks and other suffering people have never found ways to die.
at what point will the proletariat rise up against this type of BS?
We all know what comes after the oligarchy told the poor to eat cake when out of bread. Are we going there in 2025?
They should come and put me out of my misery then
I don’t know why this article is making the rounds again 2 years later. I wish some journalist would take the time to update the situation, particularly as the cost of living has skyrocketed and are deeply entrenched in a housing affordability crisis.
2 years have passed since the article. We deserve an update to what is actually happening.
How much of a pain in the ass is it for non canadians to come over and apply for MAID? Genuinely asking, even though I highly doubt this is realistic.
So MAID is now a silver lining for those suffering with disability and poverty who want to stop the suffering. What a bleak society.
Wow, speeding right towards a dystopian society at record breaking speeds…
“Can’t afford to live? We have several death options available for you to choose from!”
They aren’t wrong. Being elderly and poor in an unforgiving world is a curse I would wish on very few. I don’t believe in a soul, so suffering on behalf of someone else’s supposed deity is not my problem. Life doesn’t ALWAYS get better, and sometimes the best strategy in the game is to quit playing.
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But then they will try to resusicate every child that was not meant to live with birth defects in name of life preciousness. Our society is fuckedup beyond any repair.
But Canada is so progressive
I quit my job earlier this month due to toxicity in the workplace. When the guy called to ask about what to do with my measly $2k retirement account, he seemed almost baffled at my request to liquidate it because I don’t plan on retiring. I simply don’t plan on living that long. That $2k will provide another maybe two months of living expenses then what? I can’t find another job and I have basically stopped hoping that life will improve because, in my experience, it doesn’t.
Eugenics didn’t go away. It operates under more cleverly contrived moniker.
Ha, when the American right and left agree together, it’s a miracle.
Keep biting down on the conspiracy chew toy people!
I joke about this, but I can absolutely envision a time when corporations begin marketing Futurama like suicide booths – make a profit off someone killing themself.
PVP has been introduced
Lol Canada.
The rich can afford to die, so they should be the one’s doing it.
Haha just wait till all the poor and sickly and homeless and mentally.ill people choose assisted suicide.
Just fuckin wait! Who is going to do the shit jobs? Who will make that steak for Mr rich dick? Who will change grandma’s bedpan? Teach Baron to read?
Rich folks need us peasants to do the work.
I think we should have a right to die. That being said, it’s evil that they’re giving us the right to die but taking away all the support, so MAID becomes the only option. Absolute fucking disgrace.
Oh my god why are ignorant people always attacking MAID. First off, MAID was court ordered after several brave Canadian fought for their right to die with dignity. Second the Canadian government continues to delay the expansion to include mental illness. Despite the court order. Third it’s not super easy to get and palliative is still very much the norm.
Yes there have been stories about how some individuals have suggested it inappropriately. They are generally fired for that. There are also stories, much more, where people had to fight to get it, to the point of having to sign paperwork in bus shelters. Catholic hospitals are allowed to deny it to patients and they have to transfer, which is just fucking disgusting. This is as bad as if they were allowed to deny abortions because of religion. If you cannot provide full care due to your religion, find a different job.
No doctor in their right mind is going to sign off on MAID due to poverty. Like fuck. It’s just so disgusting that what people fought so hard to get approved despite the government overwhelming being against is used as a political weapon against the current administration. Like dudes Liberals did not want MAID they were forced into it.
I generally provide the stat that for my entire territory, between 3 health authorities we have 1 MAID nurse and about 30 palpitate nurses in my authority alone. So what does that tell you about usage? Pretty low.
My husband’s uncle used it last year and the family was so grateful he had the option to pass in peace with those he loved there with him. My coworker’s family who’s family member did not choose MAID where grateful when the member finally died and resentful of the member for making them go through the hell of watching them die slowly.
You people disgust me.
I am an RN and deal with end of life frequently in a state that bands MAID. You do not want to die in a state without MAID, especially if you are alert and oriented going into end of life(ALS, lund disease, failed transplants, ect). We will do what we can to “keep you comfortable” but death sucks and it won’t be comfortable. Often people suffer and suffocate slowly as their families watch them gasp for breath and we push more and more morphine trying to keep the person and their families “comfortable.” We also have other patients and often can’t be there every 15mins to give meds.
Versed, morphine, etomidate, and propofol is how I want to go.
Ive been saying for years they want us and homeless people dead.
MAiD is a great program, stop maligning it. Go talk to people whose family members have availed it and you’ll get an eye opening. This is a welcome way for many without any hope to go out with dignity. It is NOT the states responsibility (read taxpayer) to perpetually support terminal patients. Death is a reality, whether by MAiD or not, it will come for us all. If one can choose how to go out when its time to call it quits, its better than prolonged suffering
I have had this thought, I know for a fact if I didn’t have my husband the end result would be me dead. I’m disabled and rely on him. I would not be able to support myself on my own due to my limitations and even if I had SSD I still would be homeless as it’s not enough to pay for everything anymore anyway.
Yeah, this is the inevitable result of allowing assisted medical suicide inside of a capitalist system. The rich will have the resources to afford around the clock care and the best drugs. If they’re doing bad medically, they have the means to live out the rest of their days comfortably. But if you’re poor, you get to… “die with dignity” as we’ve chosen to call it. That’s just a nice way of sugarcoating the fact that the most vulnerable people are afforded such poor palliative care that death is better than the struggle.
Gotta get that world population down to 800 million somehow!
Even though I understand the moral argument for allowing people to choose to die, the actual implementation always seems to go immediately from “terminally ill people dying with dignity” to “government getting rid of undesirables as a cost saving measure.”
I have chronic health conditions that drastically reduce my quality of life. MAID is an ethical alternative to unnecessary suffering.
Anyone that wouldn’t euthanize a sick pet with no chance of recovery is an asshole. Do humans deserve to be treated with less dignity than dogs?
As someone who may lose his job in a few months I wish maid was accessable to me. I’d rather be dead than homeless is this awful country
Capitalism in Kanada is hell.
This is a bs take on what MAID is. this
This post is propaganda against something that is sorely needed by many.
Sounds like a loser from antinationalism