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They should do a study where they do fake maids (like catching a jumper) and then seeing if they regret living another month.



Are you calling for nonconsensual human experiments that will (depending on the outcome) either inflict grave emotional injury onto people who are already so badly injured that they want to die, or that'll be used as a justification for stripping people of their bodily autonomy?


Yes, like catching people with nets who jump off bridges (and a vast majority are thankful of it).


Catching people who jump off bridges doesn't involve lying to people who're entrusting you with their very last bit hope.

> and a vast majority are thankful of it

A statistic that (assuming it's true) suffers from the obvious self-selection bias of people who chose to jump off a bridge knowing there was a net to catch their fall.


MAID is the net in the context of impulse driven suicide. If a person’s natural death is not reasonably foreseeable, there is a 90 day assessment period.


The government defines reasonable to save money. I’m surprised at people who think bureaucrats like those from the motor vehicle licensing departments will be able to handle such decisions.




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