HAVANA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Cuba on Friday became the second country in Latin America and the Caribbean to authorize euthanasia, following Colombia.
The Communist-run country’s National Assembly passed the measure as part of legislation updating the nation’s legal framework for its universal and free healthcare system.
“The right of people to a dignified death is recognized in end-of-life decisions, which may include the limitation of therapeutic effort, continuous or palliative care, and valid procedures that end life,” the final draft of the legislation stated.
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Fucking good, dying is a human right.
It’s the only one that’s arguably exercised by all at one point. I just hope they don’t take Canada’s route of suggesting it for every ailment out there.
Speak for yourself, I plan on being immortal. So far it works.
You’re conflating involuntary death with intentional suicide.
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While many medical doctors do not recite the Hippocratic Oath, it is totally applicable here.
FIRST DO NO HARM.
Prolonging pain without a foreseeable remedy is harmful. This is a no brainer.
there was a time when i would have found it weird that cuba would have a more humane policy than the united states… but these are dark times.
Cuba has had a more humane healthcare system than the for profit US system for a long time.
That’s the way I want to go. In a bar, drinking rum, and listening to some good Cuban jazz.
Ok what does quietly mean? Did they whisper it?
