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This is like trusting people to behave while owning guns. Curse of knowledge writ large.


It's a demonstration that the system currently in place has verification checks.

No one was killed against their will here.

There's a legitimate debate to be had on the question of whether it was even wrong to alert an injured veteren that MAID was an option given they had the free will and the gumption to reply No way, Feck off, Not interested.

The onus here should be on secondary interviews sorting out whether a person really did have insurmountable chronic pain and problems or whether they were depressed and lacked resources to deal with a situation.


There have been people killed against their will at the time because they previously signed something to ignore their future self.


Under MAID and against their will?

Can you provide details of this?




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