[ExI] Legal euthanasia for mental problems increasing worldwide

[Darin Sunley]

As a centrist Canadian GenXer, I've been killed to go kill myself by a lot
more social justice warriors than rednecks, just sayin'.

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Agreed.  For example, quite a few MAGA types would recommend it for any
> Democrat, on the basis that being a Democrat is incurable insanity - and
> some Democrats would recommend it for the most extreme MAGA types on the
> same basis.
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 12:08 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm all for it on an individual basis, however, having people recommend
>> it
>> could lead to some thorny ethical issues.
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:
>>
>> > Most cases of assisted suicide or euthanasia (ASE) in the Netherlands
>> > – the first country to legalise the practice in 2002 – involve people
>> > with terminal illnesses. But ASE for psychiatric reasons is on the
>> > rise. In 2010, only two people sought euthanasia on the grounds of
>> > mental health. That increased to 68 in 2019 and to 138 last year.
>> >
>> > <
>> https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/18/why-are-dutch-doctors-euthanising-a-healthy-young-woman/
>> >
>> >
>> > Quotes:
>> > Psychiatric euthanasia remains divisive in the Netherlands. Many Dutch
>> > people who were initially in favour of ASE are reconsidering their
>> > positions because of it. Boudewijn Chabot is one such critic, a
>> > psychiatrist who actually received a suspended sentence for carrying
>> > out the first reported case of euthanasia for psychiatric reasons in
>> > the 1990s. Now Chabot worries that the legalisation of ASE has gone
>> > too far. ‘I am not against euthanasia in psychiatry or severe
>> > dementia’, he writes. ‘[But] I am extremely concerned that doctors are
>> > trying to solve social misery due to lack of treatment and care, by
>> > opening the gate to the end.’
>> > In Canada, people seek out euthanasia to solve poverty, homelessness
>> > and lack of medical care. In the Netherlands, therapists seem to have
>> > given up on treating the mentally unwell, recommending euthanasia
>> > instead.
>> > --------------
>> >
>> > Extending euthanasia to get rid of problems or difficult cases sounds
>> > very dubious to me.
>> >
>> > BillK
>> >
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