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Guys it reminds of me of an episode in old-person future cartoon so it must be bad.
Note how every criticism of this is purely on aesthetic grounds. The American who used it was in pain and a had a lethal diagnosis.
The grounds of this arrest is extremely problematic and could set a precedent effectively making assisted suicide illegal. If buying NOx violates dangerous chemical acts/laws, what is stopping any shithead conservative org from going after assisted suicide via barbiturates? Or opioids?
The aesthetics matter quite a lot. Physician-assisted death should be a medical procedure administered by a number of professionals all agreeing it's the right thing to do. "Hop in the bespoke space pod and all your troubles go away!" is not a level of accessibility anybody should be comfortable with.
I am far more worried about the opposite of assisted death being made illegal: normalizing it as a "treatment" for the outcomes of capitalism. It's happening in Canada right now, and it's messed up.
The meme about "socialist" Canada making people choose suicide over healthcare is widely overblown by conservative media.
It’s not just conservative media: https://jacobin.com/2024/05/canada-euthanasia-poor-disabled-health-care
Canada did genuinely really fuck this one up. There is a lot written about it from left wing sources. These types of things should always cause some concern for the discerning leftist when happening in capitalist hell holes