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'I'm dying, you're not': Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize physician-assisted death (apnews.com)
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On a brisk day at a restaurant outside Chicago, Deb Robertson sat with her teenage grandson to talk about her death.

She’ll probably miss his high school graduation. She declined the extended warranty on her car. Sometimes she wonders who will be at her funeral.

Those things don’t frighten her much. The 65-year-old didn’t cry when she learned two months ago that the cancerous tumors in her liver were spreading, portending a tormented death.

But later, she received a call. A bill moving through the Illinois Legislature to allow certain terminally ill patients to end their own lives with a doctor’s help had made progress.

Then she cried.

“Medical-aid in dying is not me choosing to die,” she says she told her 17-year-old grandson. “I am going to die. But it is my way of having a little bit more control over what it looks like in the end.”

That same conversation is happening beside hospital beds and around dinner tables across the country, as Americans who are nearing life’s end negotiate the terms with themselves, their families and, now, state lawmakers.

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[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gender reassignments? Sure, but... At what age are we going to allow that? I've seen way too many people saying it's okay for any kid at 5 years old.

Doctors and medical professionals should decide whether they want to perform gender reassignments, not the government. The medical professionals all seems to agree that they won't perform a full gender reassignment until the patient is at least in their later teens. Anybody too young for gender reassignment is just being prescribed puberty blockers to give them more time to decide.

I don't see any problem with just leaving it in the hands of medical professionals. Yea, some people may say it's okay for 5 year olds to get a full gender reassignment, but those people aren't doctors, and the process can't really happen without a doctor involved.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

The problem is there’s always some crackpot doctor who will make a poor, non-medically influenced decision and without regulation there’s no way to prevent it.

The “vaccines cause autism” guy was a licensed doctor, and I think we all agree he wasn’t making medically sound decisions.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, and that also got reversed and if you google the guy it shows "British disgraced former surgeon and medical research falsifier and antivaxxers"

You can't always stop cheaters before they cause damaged, that is life, but you can punish him, learn, and move on.

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