Venting Woman trying to stop her husband from assisted suicide.

[Deleted member 19654]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/medically-assisted-death-wife-loses-appeal-1.5712579

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...e-in-dying-bridgewater-couple-court-1.5700203

A woman in Canada went to court to try and stop her husband from accessing assisted suicide and she wants to sue the doctors. Her husband is in his 80s and suffering from advanced COPD. She believes that his wish to die is based on his anxiety and mental delusions and not the fact that he's physically suffering. She's against euthanasia because of her religious views.

Let the poor guy make his own decisions to die with dignity. It's just incredibly selfish at this point.

 

[Anonymoussn]

'The couple have known each other for more than 60 years and have been married for 48. After Katherine launched her legal efforts to stop her husband from accessing MAID, her husband moved out of their shared home and the couple stopped speaking.'

This is such a sad way for their relationship to end after 60 years of marriage. Feel so sorry for both of them tbh.

 

[mmt]

I would imagine that losing the appeal will help others in the future, since it has set a legal precedent.

 

[Deleted member 19654]

"Katherine said she also believes her husband is a hypochondriac — an opinion she bases on a diagnosis from a man whom she described as the son of a church friend. She said he's a practising physician, although court documents say he is not licensed to practise in Canada. She summed up her husband's thinking about his health as "delusional."

It's a description that he said is demeaning."I'm not a loony bin case. I just don't have the breath to keep going," he said. Katherine's husband said he doesn't want to have to take violent measures to end his own life, but he's thought seriously about it in recent weeks as the court battle with his wife has delayed his plans"

The poor guy isn't crazy, he just wants his suffering to end.

 

[cowbain]

I'd wanna kill myself too if I was married to someone like that. Poor guy!

 

[YellowSneakers]

Narcissitic traits masking itself in religiosity.

 

[Superdeterminist]

What an awful situation.

 

[Life_and_Death]

Narcissitic traits masking itself in religiosity.

how is not wanting a loved one to die narcissitic? this to me just seems like a typical human emotion

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

It sucks when your family don't support yout decision.

 

[YellowSneakers]

how is not wanting a loved one to die narcissitic? this to me just seems like a typical human emotion

She's couching her objections in a grandiose religious proclamations. His daily suffering is a vehicle to show off her piety.
She's not pleading with him as a wife & companion.

 

[Life_and_Death]

She's couching her objections in a grandiose religious proclamations. His daily suffering is a vehicle to show off her piety.
She's not pleading with him as a wife & companion.

Where exactly does it show this? A lot of people are against assisted suicide. Again this doesn't make them a narcissist

 

[VIBRITANNIA]

it's understandable and reasonable to be upset at the mere idea of your lifelong partner commiting suicide. what isn't reasonable is preventing him from making his own choice. it's his life, his pain, his body. let him do what he wants.

 

[freefrommybody]

how is not wanting a loved one to die narcissitic? this to me just seems like a typical human emotion

It's not desiring a loved one to live that is narcissistic. It's having the arrogance and selfishness to actually try to override another free human being's rights over their body with your own desires, then having the self-righteousness to believe you're in the right.

 

[Life_and_Death]

It's not desiring a loved one to live that is narcissistic. It's having the arrogance and selfishness to actually try to override another free human being's rights over their body with your own desires, then having the self-righteousness to believe you're in the right.

Because it's so totally not possible to love someone that much you don't want to see them go

 

[Meretlein]

More proof that suicide prevention is for everyone but the suicidal person. It's not like we go to languish in some dark dungeon after ctb.

 

[Whale_bones]

Because it's so totally not possible to love someone that much you don't want to see them go

That's not based on your love for someone else, it's based on YOUR feelings and the fact that you would feel bad if they left. If you truly care about the person and have empathy for their suffering, you put their needs ahead of your own and allow them to stop suffering and find peace. You don't force them to keep enduring pain just because you don't want to be sad and miss them.

 

[freefrommybody]

Because it's so totally not possible to love someone that much you don't want to see them go

I think we have different ideas about what love is. Naturally, if you loved someone, you wouldn't want to see them go. But imo, loving someone is not possessing them like a prized object you can't part with. Love has more to do with respect, consideration, and a desire for the loved one to be happy (sometimes putting their needs above your own). This woman embodied none of that in her actions.

 

[Life_and_Death]

I think we have different ideas about what love is. Naturally, if you loved someone, you wouldn't want to see them go. But imo, loving someone is not possessing them like a prized object you can't part with. Love has more to do with respect and consideration, which this woman did not show.

I think it depends on the person.everyone reacts to things differently. And considering we don't know this person we shouldn't judge them and call them names.