If you were required to be an organ donor, you’d save lives while setting yourself free. You’ll also give someone else a chance at taking the spot you had at work and your apartment.
Since you mentioned it - organ donation should be opt out, not opt in. It wouldn’t even be controversial, everybody still has freedom of choice.
Edit: I’m really curious what those downvoting me are objecting to. At least leave a comment or something!
Voluntary assisted dying (VAD), is legal in all Australian states except the Northern Territory. It was first legalised in 2017 after over 60 failed bills.
The person must have a disease or illness that is advanced, progressive, and expected to cause death within a certain time frame, must be experiencing intolerable suffering and must meet the eligibility criteria for their state.
My state has a ‘gag law’ that prohibits medical staff initiating a conversation about voluntary assisted dying with a patient.
It’s not a situation that anybody ever wants to be in, but knowing that should the worst happen, relief is possible can be a big comfort.
No. You’d create perverse incentives where people would be shunned by society for refusing to kill themselves.
Instead, we eliminate work-as-a-necessity by meeting everyone’s “needs” and transform society to work-as-a-luxury: Employment isn’t for meeting our essential survival needs, but for our social wants.
As for the “apartment”: We have sufficient quantity of vacant housing that every homeless person in the country could be housed today, and even if there weren’t, it would be easy to build. What’s lacking is the motivation to do it.
No. You’d create perverse incentives where people would be shunned by society for refusing to kill themselves.
If the majority of society wants you gone, your death would benefit them. Unfortunately not everyone is capable of being loved.
But I agree with the rest.
