4 ms·

Well, this is absolutely crazy... I hope she and her family manage to fight this decision somehow. I get that she's seriously ill, but denying her the option to

Well, this is absolutely crazy... I hope she and her family manage to fight this decision somehow. I get that she's seriously ill, but denying her the option to live for even a day longer is absolutely insane and should be illegal.

Detrytus 3y ago
Well, that's the downside of publicly funded healthcare: government pays for your treatment, so government gets to decide if you are worth the expense. Which of course is completely fucked up.
- BitPirate 3y ago
  And with privately funded healthcare, there may be no treatment at all. That's even more fucked up.
  - Detrytus 3y ago
    Well, there's always a treatment if you have money to pay for it. And if you don't you still have options like various charities, crowdfunding, etc. That's still a better scenario than the court ruling that the best thing for you is to die.
    - jabradoodle 3y ago
      Well then they have that option in addition to state healthcare, so what on earth are you talking about?
    - EdwardDiego 3y ago
      GoFundMe as a form of accessing healthcare isn't great.
    - tengwar2 3y ago
      Private healthcare is available in the UK (or in this case in Canada). It appears that she is being actively prevented from using it.
- SenAnder 3y ago
  But that's not what's happening - they're not saying "we can't afford to keep her alive" - they're saying "she's incapable of making her own medical decisions because she's not listening to her doctor's advice (which is to die)".
- kmlx 3y ago
  that person can still go private. no one will deny her that right. but state funded healthcare makes sure even the poorest get some form of care. and yes, they will triage.
  - db48x 3y ago
    How can she? The judge just declared her incompetent to make her own medical decisions.
    - kmlx 3y ago
      the trial was about the NHS. they are free to use a different provider.
viraptor 3y ago
Kind of, sometimes, but not always. On the other side of this is the "daughter from California" scenario https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_from_California_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_from_California_syndr... which you also don't want to end up in. There has to be some threshold for the doctors to say "I get what you're trying to achieve but the choice is to die today or in a few days while medicated like crazy with tubes everywhere because you they can't breathe/eat/move".

Detrytus 3y ago

Well, that's the downside of publicly funded healthcare: government pays for your treatment, so government gets to decide if you are worth the expense. Which of course is completely fucked up.

BitPirate 3y ago
And with privately funded healthcare, there may be no treatment at all. That's even more fucked up.
- Detrytus 3y ago
  Well, there's always a treatment if you have money to pay for it. And if you don't you still have options like various charities, crowdfunding, etc. That's still a better scenario than the court ruling that the best thing for you is to die.
  - jabradoodle 3y ago
    Well then they have that option in addition to state healthcare, so what on earth are you talking about?
  - EdwardDiego 3y ago
    GoFundMe as a form of accessing healthcare isn't great.
  - tengwar2 3y ago
    Private healthcare is available in the UK (or in this case in Canada). It appears that she is being actively prevented from using it.
SenAnder 3y ago
But that's not what's happening - they're not saying "we can't afford to keep her alive" - they're saying "she's incapable of making her own medical decisions because she's not listening to her doctor's advice (which is to die)".
kmlx 3y ago
that person can still go private. no one will deny her that right. but state funded healthcare makes sure even the poorest get some form of care. and yes, they will triage.
- db48x 3y ago
  How can she? The judge just declared her incompetent to make her own medical decisions.
  - kmlx 3y ago
    the trial was about the NHS. they are free to use a different provider.

viraptor 3y ago

Kind of, sometimes, but not always. On the other side of this is the "daughter from California" scenario https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_from_California_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_from_California_syndr... which you also don't want to end up in. There has to be some threshold for the doctors to say "I get what you're trying to achieve but the choice is to die today or in a few days while medicated like crazy with tubes everywhere because you they can't breathe/eat/move".