Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • Alien Nathan Edward
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    1 year ago

    I can respect someone’s right to author their own last chapter, but the issue seems to be that along with the physical decline that can come with age or infirmity is often a mental decline that makes consent an extraordinarily sticky wicket.

    • renlok@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, well the decision would have to made before you no longer have capacity to make consent.

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        1 year ago

        that’s the glue on the wicket: if someone hasn’t made the decision by the time they lose capacity are they doomed to suffer? also, how do we determine exactly how much loss of mental function has to occur before someone loses the capacity to make this decision? Who gets to decide? The government doesn’t have an interest but is also going to have to try to make a one-size-fits-all determination of mental function that will almost certainly be at least a little bit wrong for every specific case. The family, assuming there is one, knows the individual more personally and can speak to what they would want but might also have an interest in killing someone off prematurely in order to get an inheritance or be rid of a financial burden.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah or you’d risk families with bad intentions making the decision for them. Luckily the legal framework for capacity to make decisions is already well established it’s used in healthcare regularly already.