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minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoMore than likely depression isn’t the mental health condition this targets. However you need the recommending and preforming doctor to sign off on it and be deemed able to consent the day of. If you were suicidal the day they go to do it then you’d be disqualified. It sucks for dementia patients because they can’t sign off “when my mind goes”. They have to do it before then.
minus-squareageedizzle@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-22 months ago If you were suicidal the day they go to do it then you’d be disqualified. If someone is not suicidal the day they go to do it then they won’t go through with it. Why would you choose to die if you don’t want to die? I don’t understand this sentence.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoDying on your own terms isn’t suicidal in the sense of mental illness/depression.
minus-squareageedizzle@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 months agoIt is quite literally assisted suicide though
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThat is a massive over-simplification. MAID gives people the ability to die on their own terms.
minus-squareageedizzle@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 months agoIt’s not an over-simplification that’s literally just what its called. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide
More than likely depression isn’t the mental health condition this targets.
However you need the recommending and preforming doctor to sign off on it and be deemed able to consent the day of.
If you were suicidal the day they go to do it then you’d be disqualified.
It sucks for dementia patients because they can’t sign off “when my mind goes”. They have to do it before then.
If someone is not suicidal the day they go to do it then they won’t go through with it. Why would you choose to die if you don’t want to die? I don’t understand this sentence.
Dying on your own terms isn’t suicidal in the sense of mental illness/depression.
It is quite literally assisted suicide though
That is a massive over-simplification. MAID gives people the ability to die on their own terms.
It’s not an over-simplification that’s literally just what its called. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide