#SuicidePrevention is what happens when the capitalist elite like @Tantacrul, @mega2e and @gabrieldance want to entrap the less fortunate in circumstances that they'll never have to experience for themselves. schopenhaueronmars.com/2022/… #SuicidePreventionIsSlavery

"This particular exchange is nothing more than an hour-long demonstration of collective ignorance, misinformation, conspiracy thinking, and declarations of fact without facts." - MAiD in Canada That may sound harsh, but after reviewing over an hour of discussion about MAiD, we struggle to find a more accurate description. Triggernometry claims to be a platform for serious conversations. Serious conversations require serious scrutiny. Instead, viewers were presented with a steady stream of false claims, misunderstandings, contradictions, and conspiracy-laden narratives about MAiD, palliative care, organ donation, mental illness, Canadian law, and (believe it or not) food preservatives—with little meaningful challenge from the hosts. Misinformation about MAiD does not exist in a vacuum. It affects and harms patients, families, healthcare providers, and public trust in healthcare institutions. Triggernometry is complicit in that harm. If @triggerpod wants to be taken seriously as a platform for public debate, it should take a hard look at the role it is playing in facilitating the spread of dangerous misinformation. Our full review, with clips, timestamps, and sources: maidincanada.substack.com/p/…

Funding by US ‘hate group’ to anti assisted dying groups opendemocracy.net/en/reveale…

RT @sophieRblake: My incredibly brave friend Josh, who has Huntingtons disease. He articulates in this interview just how cruel and unfair…

There you have it - when all else fails, you can always pull out the trump card, and make any socially divisive issue a deeply racial one (even if data always tends to show uptake of assisted dying to be LOWER amongst non white populations). Mic. Dropped. End of debate.

A Personal Attack on Helen Long Built on a False Premise. How one Euthanasia Prevention Coalition blog post tells us everything we need to know about the anti-MAiD movement. maidincanada.substack.com/p/…

Letters to editor: ‘MAID … public policy should not be driven by the assumption that people with disabilities are incapable of making deeply personal decisions about their own suffering, dignity and demise’ theglobeandmail.com/opinion/… theglobeandmail.com/opinion/… theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

Kelsi Sheren getting exposed again as the spreader of misinformation she is. Thank you Gwen Roley (AFP) and CTV News for taking this topic seriously. youtube.com/watch?v=WOz5xRql…

RT @KristopherWells: Yesterday, I talked with Power & Politics about the joint parliamentary committee on Medical Assistance in Dying and r…

The assisted dying debate in the UK Parliament has brought negative attention to Canada’s MAiD, Medical Assistance in Dying. This series gives Canadian healthcare professionals and patients a chance to respond and share their points of views. Margaret lives with Metastatic Breast Cancer, otherwise known as Secondary, Stage Four or Advanced. I thank her for sharing her story!

Totally with @kimleadbeater here. And this is no longer about one bill but a system. When any legislation can be buried by procedure in the House of Lords, the question is: why do appointed figures, political, professional or ecclesiastical, hold the power to override the elected will of the people? As a priest of @churchofengland , I am dismayed that @ArchbishopSarah @CottrellStephen and the rest of the bishops have not only failed to confront this, but continue to benefit from it. None of us can claim moral authority while occupying seats that depend on power without democratic consent. Silence in the face of this is not neutrality but complicity. A chamber built on appointment cannot claim democratic authority. When unelected voices can block the will of the Commons, it is not scrutiny but obstruction. It is power without mandate, authority without accountability, and influence without consent. And where power refuses accountability, it loses its moral claim. The bishops should know this all too well as trust in them in the church is at a very low ebb indeed. Reform of the second chamber is no longer a matter of preference, it is an essential matter of justice. Democracy cannot survive where power answers only to itself. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

The House of Lords has disgraced parliament. Their existence is based on trust, now roundly abused by a small group of unelected zealots. Time for a serious look at who these people are, and how they are allowed to govern us. The X trolls will be jubilant, but we will be back.

These are the things UK politicians have said about Canada. It’s why I’m doing my series interviewing Canadian healthcare professionals and patients giving them a chance to respond

The assisted dying debate in the UK Parliament has brought negative attention to Canada’s MAiD, Medical Assistance in Dying. This series gives Canadian healthcare professionals and patients a chance to respond and share their points of views. Dr. Jonathan Ailon is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and a Palliative Care Physician. I thank him for sharing his insights! @CSPM_SCMP @drkathrynmannix @docdanielle @HumanistsInt @AGoodDeath @drkathrynmannix @UofTMDprogram @canadanurses @UofTMDprogram @Humanists_UK @DWDCanada @dignityindying @maidhouseca @CanadaCAMAP @CailinasEirinn @drandrewb @jamesdownar

@IloraFinlay is incorrect about palliative care in Canada after MAiD was introduced -see study. I believe Canada’s suicide rate has decreased too. Peers in the @UKHouseofLords please do your research before slandering other countries @jamesdownar @BakerIdris @dignityindying @DWDCanada @MDMDmydecision @Humanists_UK publications.gc.ca/collectio…

@rljcoelho is much like @IloraFinlay masking their religious motivations behind their profession. It looks like @OurDutyOfCare is funded by @careorguk …theguardian.com/society/2024…

Once again, like a Scooby Doo villain, the mask gets pulled off to once again expose yet another Evangelical Christian group behind these 'secular' concerns. Not that we would expect @Tanni_GT to have reservations about forming political alliances with far right religious groups, if it can help her anti-choice agenda.

If the government doesn't care about you, then it makes no sense to want them to have the power to force you to live by banning access to reliable and humane suicide methods. If they can't be trusted with facilitation of suicide, then they certainly can't be trusted with extensive suicide prevention powers.

Interesting that you think it's pro-choice people who are utilising the motte and bailey fallacy; when it is pro-lifers who start out by pretending that they just don't want the state to be involved in suicide...but then when you dig beneath the surface, you find that in fact, they want the state to be actively forcing people to live via paternalistic suicide prevention strategies (which is the only reason that government assisted dying programs even have to exist to begin with).

Clearly there very much IS a debate over whether people should be allowed to end their life. The only reason that people are seeking access to 'assistance' in dying from the state is because the state won't allow them to access reliable and humane methods through any other channels; and even goes to the extreme of locking people up to stop them from attempting suicide. Suicide being legal is NOT the same thing as people having a legal right to commit suicide without obstruction from the state. There's no such thing as a "right" that the state can lock you up to stop you from exercising, or put unnecessary barriers in the way to stop you from successfully exercising.