Via Al Roth’s Market Design Blog, “In June, the British Parliament passed a law to permit medical aid in dying, which still needs further action before going into effect. The Guardian looks at the harrowing situations facing some proponents of MAID.”
From one of the patients featured in the Guardian story, Maddie Cowey, who was diagnosed with a rare cancer called sarcoma at the age of 18:
“I know the biggest opponents to assisted dying are the disability rights activists,” Cowey says. “As someone living with a life-limiting health condition who will have to rely on the state at some point, I completely get the perspective of a disabled person. But the assisted dying bill is specifically for dying people.
“Cancer can be so uncertain, especially when it spreads to your organs, and you don’t know which one it’s going to decide to destroy and how painful it’s going to be,” she says. “Knowing there might be an alternative brings a lot of relief and hope. We deserve the right at the end of life to say how it’s going to go.” (emphasis mine)
Read the full article here.