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This is rather off-topic but in my opinion, the government not providing affordable housing free of chemical cleaners in the second most expensive city of Canad
by seszett 4y ago
This is rather off-topic but in my opinion, the government not providing affordable housing free of chemical cleaners in the second most expensive city of Canada is very different from the government forcing her to commit suicide.
The government of Canada generally doesn't provide housing with such specific requirements, and very few governments around the world do.
In her situation, almost anywhere in the world she would have had the choice between living on the street and living in a house that sometimes smells of cigarette from the neighbours. In some countries including Canada, Switzerland or Belgium, she also had the choice of euthanasia.
> In one email to friends, Sophia suggested that her death was, in a way, a show of protest against the lack of response to her and her physicians’ pleas
Doing something in a show of protest against the government is certainly not the same as being forced to do it by this very government.
- possiblydrunk 4y agoThe article mentions that: “We physicians find it UNCONSCIONABLE that no other solution is proposed to this situation other than medical assistance in dying,” they wrote.