Throwaway05
1d ago
It's not about fixing problems, it's about giving the sufferer the a quality of life better than being dead.
What I'm saying is that in a lot of these cases the drugs don't improve any quality of life or there is literally no quality of life.
These things also come with serious side effects.
It's not a good solution. Fentanyl is not Soma.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Pleasure causing drugs don't fix all problems, and for people who functionally don't have brains they aren't really doing much.
Throwaway05
2d ago
What about people who are functionally dead (like brain death) or people who were functionally never born (as is arguable in this case)?
Throwaway05
2d ago
IIRC the Floyd trial had juror intimidation. That was way more important and disruptive but nobody remembers it.
Throwaway05
5d ago
I would hazard a guess that the majority of healthcare workers have encountered a patient who experienced life altering injury, paralysis, and even death from a fall of two stories or less.
It's not certain, but it can easily and obviously be quite bad.
I mean palliative care only provides meaningful benefit for some problems, many other patients would prefer their autonomy to be respected or are unable to establish their wishes because of the illness (or don't even have wishes).
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