#suicide
dedicated to helping people end their lives and they allow foreigners to enter their country to legally kill themselves.
much criticism from lawmakers that the Swiss rules surrounding assisted suicide are full of legal loopholes.
Exit International, an assisted suicide organization said in a statement that a 64-year-old American woman with “severe immune compromise” died Monday near the German border in one of its devices."
https://globalnews.ca/news/10771951/sarco-suicide-pods-arrests-assisted-death-switzerland/
@holon42 Up here in the Great White North, we have Medical Assistance In Dying or M.A.I.D.
We've had it for a few years now. Haven't noticed anyone getting all 'outcry' about it. There were a few cases during COVID-19 of HCWs recommending MAID to disabled people and getting caught, but in general, yea, pretty quiet.
So why are people upset at Switzerland? We've been at it for YEARS up here....🤷♂️
it seems it's because the pod method doesn't follow the guidelines regarding method that is getting the authorities in Switzerland upset.
it would happen here too🇨🇦
if we started using those pods to depart when we want to.
the rules, made by "experts". don't want deviations.