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Calgary judge rules 27-year-old can go ahead with MAID death despite father's concerns (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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But W.V. believes his daughter "is vulnerable and is not competent to make the decision to take her own life," according to Feasby's summary of the father's position.

"He says that she is generally healthy and believes that her physical symptoms, to the extent that she has any, result from undiagnosed psychological conditions."

Her only known diagnoses described in court earlier this month are autism and ADHD.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

I would rather let people, supported by the medical system, make their own decisions about what is right for them. There's zilch information about what this person is dealing with (as is their right to privacy), but two doctors believe that it is sufficient that a request for MAID is justified. It's pretty hard for me to believe that we, as armchair experts, know what is best for this person - which is basically the ruling of the judge. It doesn't matter what we, or the person's dad think, it's none of our business.