No one should be forced to survive.

If you think that physical health is the only indicator of quality of life then you have no idea how mental health works.

So the mentally ill are forced to suffer because of somebody's saviour complex.... There are checks and balances in the system. The plan was to not just kill whoever walked through the door. Guess what? Not one life will be saved every person whether they are blessed with a compassionate death or not will die. NOBODY IS GETTING OUT ALIVE. What we are talking about is how much we are willing to let you suffer as you die.

Being suicidal exempting people from access to safe suicide is so morbidly ironic, it's not even funny.

The risk of fucking up a home suicide and surviving, brain damaged to the point where you're conscious enough to be aware of things but not to have agency, so you end up locked away for the rest of your natural life in a government funded ward, staffed by the cruel, burnt out people who usually end up working in those kinds of facilities...

That's one of the worst fates I can imagine.

And not to mention it's far more expensive for taxpayers to fund a lifetime of carehome expenses for every one of these survivors, who now, ironically, cannot actually consent to death, despite now being trapped in a reality that is far worse that what they were initially escaping.

This is not about healthcare or ethics, its about having cheap workers.

Hot-take: It should be open to any adult for any reason they choose.

People are forced into the world without any choice. They should have the choice to leave it peacefully when they want.

This is cruel.

I don't think there's a simple one-size-fits-all answer for everyone here.

What the majority of people with mental illness need is better treatment options. That they don't have to pay for out-of-pocket because the government doesn't fund it, or travel for hours in order to access. Fixing this is, to be honest, more important than extending MAID beyond serious physical conditions at the moment, and would help more people. But it's expensive and difficult.

On the gripping hand, there is such a thing as treatment-resistant mental illness. If someone has tried everything, and nothing works, and there are no new treatments on the horizon, then denying them the only relief possible is cruel. This small percentage of mentally ill people should be permitted access to MAID, after due consideration of their medical history.

The issue with this is that we have MAID because of the courts, not because it was legislated. This will certainly be taken to court and based on previous rulings has a very high chance of being deemed unconstitutional.

So people have to be mentally ill and in physical pain. What a great outlook for those mentally ill and seeking to end their misery. Now they have to hurt themselves too in order to be taken seriously.