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Colonel Cancer posted:When several more iterations of This is already how people in Vancouver act about the homeless and appalling poverty downtown.
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Idk my uncle in law died a long death from ALS and was told by his insurance if he offed himself (which he wanted to) his wife would be financially ruined bc she would owe everything back for all the stuff he got to make his last MANY years a little more comfortable well over 100 grand. So if anyone insists that there are no circumstances where assisted suicide should be available I disagree. Otherwise a lot of good points itt
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AxGrap posted:Idk my uncle in law died a long death from ALS and was told by his insurance if he offed himself (which he wanted to) his wife would be financially ruined bc she would owe everything back for all the stuff he got to make his last MANY years a little more comfortable well over 100 grand. So if anyone insists that there are no circumstances where assisted suicide should be available I disagree. now that's ghoulish
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Because she needed the payoff from life Insurance to pay the Healthcare company?
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Orbis Tertius posted:you think if they were given a million bucks and world class psychiatric care they would choose to live? not for nothing, but I have known multiple people who had a million bucks and world-class psychiatric care and still made earnest attempts at suicide
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Femur posted:Because she needed the payoff from life Insurance to pay the Healthcare company? Iirc it was that plus the health care word not be paid for as much if he died by his own hand. It was pretty hosed up.
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Subjunctive posted:not for nothing, but I have known multiple people who had a million bucks and world-class psychiatric care and still made earnest attempts at suicide That’s not really a reason to open the door to liquidating the poor - who wouldn’t otherwise make suicide attempts.
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I take a little umbrage to all the moral hypotheticals itt re: suicide, mostly bc of the experience of that family member. But that poo poo in Canada is pretty hosed.
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Shame Boy posted:So is it okay to provide the group that's truly in need of killing themselves with tools to do so if it also means that a (in all likelihood much larger) group that wasn't going to kill themselves will now be pressured into doing it by the perverse incentives of the system? No. To suffer so that others may live is a higher calling. It sucks, it's hard, it's unfair - but it's about humanity, not yourself.   Just know that Marx is by your bedside, and you're doing it to keep hope for a better world alive.
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Subjunctive posted:not for nothing, but I have known multiple people who had a million bucks and world-class psychiatric care and still made earnest attempts at suicide granted, though the context was impoverished peoples being offered suicide as a way out when their immiseration is very obviously the problem. also not really concerned with realism when I shitpost
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GotLag posted:People who are suicidal due to capitalism shouldn't have to die alone. My new startup endr provides a variety of teleconfenced euthies to be there with you to virtually help you pass on, based on your subscription tier and gamified unlocks. You can find rare shiny afterlives and trade them with other users!
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tokin opposition posted:I have decided to MAiD myself out of this conversation, thus winning it lmao Sorry, I'm just a dumbass who worries too much about people sometimes. Serious talk: Most discussions on the subject are going to be pointless moralizing either way. In the end, outrage over what is being done doesn't really shed any light on what is to be done. Which is a subject for, ehem, another thread.  not gonna lie, creeping me out a bit here dude
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my dad posted:lmao Thanks dad, you're already a better father to me than my actual father 
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:lol that isn't how it works. lawyers work shitloads of hours but only a fraction of those are billable hours. 99 percent is a fraction of one hundred percent
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SniperWoreConverse posted:My new startup endr provides a variety of teleconfenced euthies to be there with you to virtually help you pass on, based on your subscription tier and gamified unlocks. You can find rare shiny afterlives and trade them with other users! I am thinking more along the lines of having capitalists go with you to act as servants in the afterlife.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:My new startup endr provides a variety of teleconfenced euthies to be there with you to virtually help you pass on, based on your subscription tier and gamified unlocks. You can find rare shiny afterlives and trade them with other users! Suicide whales buying lootboxes full of pills.
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My mother suffered a long, painful drawn out death from cancer, she wanted to die and couldn't. Eventually I kept telling a nurse that she'd woken up and requested additional meds until they put her under and she didn't come up again, everyone involved knew what was up but there was no legal means for her to request a dose that would end things. People have a right to die
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Sure, people should have access to dignified easy death. The idea that some authority holds power over when or how you die is almost laughable. The fact that they effectively do for some (like that story about treatments and life insurance) is a lot less funny. Building anything within these systems just compromises you, gives you something to lose, to the point where some money-minded coalition of middle men gets to hold your consciousness hostage. It's sad that/when anybody wants or seeks death, but death is an inevitable part of life that you shouldn't fear, and can even embrace. Like the rear end in a top hat being right next to the hoohah. That's right, Go forth, eat rear end, and die!
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Professor Shark posted:can someone post a picture of an Uber driver doing a livestream of him playing a mobile game while Tiffany Trump looks puffy and grumpy in the background or something? I don't have a capitalism picture handy but this thread's a huge bummer right now, even more than it usually is, so have this picture I found in my screenshots folder that I don't remember taking and have no recollection of what it could be from: 
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Frosted Flake posted:They’re going to turbocharge immiserating the poor to feed them into the grinder and you’ll continue to think of it as individuals choosing what’s best for them. The freedom is entirely illusory. Capital already feeds the poor into the grinder and frames it as their own fault due to them making bad individual choices to create the illusion of freedom, though.
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Just gonna keep posting stuff from my screenshots directory until this conversation ends I guess
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Zodium posted:Capital already feeds the poor into the grinder and frames it as their own fault due to them making bad individual choices to create the illusion of freedom, though. Right, which is why this is also bad
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Zodium posted:Capital already feeds the poor into the grinder and frames it as their own fault due to them making bad individual choices to create the illusion of freedom, though. I think it's gonna get worse
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christmas boots posted:I think it's gonna get worse Just Vote
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Paladinus posted:Viral? In every sense of the word.
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This sounds like something Seinfeld would say to Elaine to try to seem deep right before getting a comeuppance like having the sandwich fall apart on his nice shirt or something.
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Shame Boy posted:This sounds like something Seinfeld would say to Elaine to try to seem deep right before getting a comeuppance like having the sandwich fall apart on his nice shirt or something. And Elaine takes a big forkful of salad and grins at him while the crowd goes wild. Yeah, I see it
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Cramps supremacy.
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Shame Boy posted:This sounds like something Seinfeld would say to Elaine to try to seem deep right before getting a comeuppance like having the sandwich fall apart on his nice shirt or something. It's more of a Kramer line, not Jerry.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It's more of a Kramer line, not Jerry. I mean I was specifically thinking of this bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjlW3QCR8Rg
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Shame Boy posted:This sounds like something Seinfeld would say to Elaine to try to seem deep right before getting a comeuppance like having the sandwich fall apart on his nice shirt or something. To me, it sounds like something George says to Jerry at the diner and then Jerry makes a joke about how he's never been more than people expect and if anything he's been less. CRUSTY MINGE posted:It's more of a Kramer line, not Jerry. I don't think Kramer would talk about being more than people expect but the double down definitely sounds like something he'd come up with.
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Shifty Nipples posted:99 percent is a fraction of one hundred percent I'm just saying "I made a billion calendar notices so pay me for this many of them as a result" is not gonna fly.
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