Resource Found an video and thread regarding personal autonomy and expansion of eligibility criteria of assisted dying

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I just found a YT video in a Reddit thread (in the philosophy subreddit) about personal autonomy and expanding the eligibility criteria of assisted dying to include more people, including those who are tired of sentience (life) and want out of a non-consensual existence imposed upon oneself. Just as a quick fact, I want to state that I support expanding assisted death to people who want it (with reasonable safeguards like waiting periods and ensuring that the person really wants it and not being coerced or pressured into making the choice against their will).

Additionally, there are some interesting discussions in the replies about allowing it and such, and one of which is by the user u/Illustrious_Plate674 in the quoted box:

Suicide in the case of mental illness is perfectly reasonable. Your brain is sick. And for many people, these ailments are life long and cannot be fixed with medication or therapy or any other treatments modern medicine has to offer. There are people who are dealing with acute crises which under normal circumstances they would not want to die. The death of a loved one for instance. In these cases it is simply a hump that these people need to get over and then their brain can heal and they can continue to live a normal life. For chronically mentally ill people that isn't the case. It is a lifelong struggle which affects every aspect of a person's life. In the same way living with a deformity does. And some people cope better than others. If you were to ask many "mentally healthy" people, would they be willing to live as a quadriplegic, many of these mentally sound people would say absolutely not. Some would choose to continue living. Many others would gladly opt for a bullet in the brain. Having a debilitating, chronic, mental illness is no different. There are people who do not want to live because of it. The fact that people still treat the brain as some foreign entity instead of a part of our anatomy that is capable of being affected by severe illness is baffling to me.

Additionally, here is the video (It is almost an hour long but the discussion is quite interesting) about expanding eligibility criteria for assisted dying by a philosophy professor, Dr. Eric Mathison, who practices clinical ethics and he talks about the medical model of assisted dying (in jurisdictions where it is legal), and long story short, he mentions about moving away from the 'medical model' and then be able to shift it closer to a bodily autonomy issue (which the right to die at it's core is). I do agree with moving it away from the medical model (reduces complications and other ethical complications and issues, including the 'do no harm' oath and concepts).

Anyways, I thought I posted this thread to bring more exposure to the idea of expanding assisted dying (and the right to die) eligibility criteria as well as bringing attention to some of the more eloquent and well-thought out comments by certain Reddit users. Nevertheless, I hope there are people who find the video as well as thread inspiring and helpful!