>> The corollary to the article is that almost all deaths in Canada result from severe or chronic medical conditions .. and now 5% of those cases are resolved via voluntary euthanasia.

> A strong argument for euthanasia always was that it would be exceedingly rare, but 5% of all deaths is not exceedingly rare.

You talked right past the actual point being made, to beat a straw man instead. Being downvoted or shunned for not actually engaging with a topic yet condemning it anyway is not equivalent to being canceled.

And as far as the overall culture war reprise dynamic, I don't see much difference in having to placate the egos of HR drones talking about diversity and the previous culture of having to placate the egos of traditional business bureaucrats waxing poetically about the virtues of mega golf or spending money on a boat. Either way you just smile, nod, and fit in, or you forge your own way outside of the pop culture power structure.

> You talked right past the actual point being made, to beat a straw man instead

Your corolary, to me sounded like "It's not shocking at all that 5% of all deaths are euthanasia, it's simply the intended/logical outcome".

Maybe I created a straw man. For me the arguments, narative, claimed outcome, scope, implications and all that for allowing something like euthanasia matter a lot.

I hope we won't push back in horror at this measure like we did with other measures, because at that point the story could easily reach nazi Germany eugenics horror levels

It was my corollary (a simple restatement of the information presented in the article), not the person you addressed, and no, it's not at all shocking that 5% of terminal cases in or facing pallative care, experiencing or about to experience chronic pain, cognitive loss, functional decline and lose of autonomy and dignity choose to knowingly take advantage of legal euthanasia.

> the story could easily reach nazi Germany eugenics horror levels

Riiiigght. Sure. If you say so.

Better to let humans suffer rather than allow them to make a choice on their own terms. Got it.