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The Realities of Healthcare in the US and the Elderly ft Ashley Frawley
Welcome to today's episode of This Is Revolution, where we delve into the complex and often controversial topic of euthanasia. Known by terms such as "Death With Dignity" or "Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID), euthanasia is increasingly presented as a humane option for those suffering from terminal illnesses or chronic conditions. But is it truly a compassionate choice, or does it mask a more troubling reality?
Since Canada implemented the MAID program in 2016, there have been 44,958 deaths under the program, with 2022 alone accounting for 4% of all deaths in the country-a 31% increase from the previous year. This rise in MAID-related deaths has saved millions in healthcare costs, raising ethical questions about the role of euthanasia in society. Does it offer a dignified end for those who can no longer contribute economically, or is it a method of disposing of those deemed unproductive, such as the elderly and those with addiction issues?
The expansion of MAID to individuals with mental illness and even "mature minors" has sparked global debate. Critics warn of a slippery slope where euthanasia might be seen as a solution for those facing not only illness but also poverty and other social injustices. Our guest today, Professor Ashley Frawley, has written extensively on the subject. She highlights how some academic papers argue that MAID serves as "harm-reduction" in an unjust world with little chance of improvement, suggesting that allowing euthanasia in such cases might prevent further suffering.
A significant portion of the population seems to agree, with one-third of Canadians supporting MAID for individuals whose sole affliction is poverty. Is this a sign of a compassionate society, or are we edging toward a dystopian reality where economic productivity defines one's right to life? To explore these pressing questions, we are joined by Professor Ashley Frawley, who will help us navigate the ethical, social, and political implications of euthanasia. Please welcome Professor Ashley Frawley.
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Komentáře

  • @Maryam-em3fb
    @Maryam-em3fb Před dnem

    I like this guy!

  • @haels5139
    @haels5139 Před dnem

    Carlin wasn't punching down when he was complaining about PC culture, he was complaining about not being able to use everyday language on broadcast television because of the Evangelical Right. While they may have sounded "similar" in their complaints, Carlin and Maher are hardly comparable; Maher wishes he could be in Carlin's shadow.

  • @jimmcmanmon
    @jimmcmanmon Před dnem

    lol, are you saying that Incels and manoshere ‘cucks’ are Betty’s for bad boy Chads like Andrew Tate’s et Al.

  • @jimmcmanmon
    @jimmcmanmon Před dnem

    The New age Evangelical right wing hybrid is well established in the U.S. too. For example, Prosperity Gospel dovetails nicely with certain westernized Yoga culture ideas of spiritual levels of being as innate and wealth as a sign of a higher status.

    • @jhlfsc
      @jhlfsc Před dnem

      We also can't lose sight of the fact that it is not Jewish zionists but "Christian" zionists/white nationalists in the US who are directly responsible in numbers and in power for the genocide in Pallestine.

    • @paladro
      @paladro Před dnem

      they should do a segment on the gurus of india and their spinoffs in the west.

  • @jimmcmanmon
    @jimmcmanmon Před dnem

    The podcast really got interesting when the discussion turned to Brazil. Before that it felt more like TYT or Breaking Point, etc, which is not meant as an insult.

  • @jimmcmanmon
    @jimmcmanmon Před dnem

    The misuse of terms by essentially their political enemies is an attempt to destroy what is actually meant by the terms. We have seen the same dynamic around Critical Race Theory. These red herrings are often used to obscure important critiques. The things you are talking about , corporate neoliberal propaganda and fronting along with social media mob-ism is not what the term means to suggest. In its simplest form it bespeaks an awareness of historical oppression and contemporary structures of oppression. Corporate frauds and obnoxious novices not withstanding.

  • @xuxArtemis
    @xuxArtemis Před dnem

    songS of protestS EXIST everywherE IF U LOOK Check out How I Feel by The Halluci Nation feat. Leonard Sumner, Shad & Northern Voice How I feel

  • @jimmcmanmon
    @jimmcmanmon Před dnem

    I think defining ‘Political Correctness’ and Wokeness’ as merely speech control is to accept the right wing Co-opting the terms much like Trump with ‘fake news’ both terms shine a light on the history and power of words to affect thought

  • @shanihandel9621
    @shanihandel9621 Před dnem

    Thank you TIR! One of the few leftist outlets that talks seriously about prostitution.

  • @hoepiesmile1764
    @hoepiesmile1764 Před 2 dny

    Why didn't you edit out the screen freeze, Jason?! 😂

  • @serversurfer6169
    @serversurfer6169 Před 2 dny

    Aren't all workers selling their bodies? 🤔

  • @xuxArtemis
    @xuxArtemis Před 2 dny

    Strange Fruit, I am appalled at how few of all ages have heard it, the trigger warnings on music videos I send now a days are absurd! my ex says they met you in Oakland, Jason, in 94-5 with a Rock n Roll chic named Spider? This true? i think they on BS.

    • @THISISREVOLUTIONpodcast
      @THISISREVOLUTIONpodcast Před 2 dny

      I was in high school at that time, and I don't remember anyone by that name..Off the top of my head, but that's like 30 years ago? I'd have to ask coach Will if he remembers.

    • @xuxArtemis
      @xuxArtemis Před dnem

      Music stopped being the sound track of Rebellion, when musicians like you, give up and Podcast only, you could blend your politics and your music, you could be the Change in the world you want to see!

    • @xuxArtemis
      @xuxArtemis Před dnem

      I'm watching Bengals home Season Start, hope you have an equally thrilling Sunday planned :)

    • @xuxArtemis
      @xuxArtemis Před dnem

      we didn't win, but its just the stArt ... who knows where the Season will Lead

  • @anelesiguqa
    @anelesiguqa Před 2 dny

    the link only takes you to part 1 of the article, where part 2?

  • @anelesiguqa
    @anelesiguqa Před 2 dny

  • @jimmcmanmon
    @jimmcmanmon Před 2 dny

    Appreciate the conversation.

  • @newryyank2247
    @newryyank2247 Před 2 dny

    I missed this one live. Very good conversation. Personally I felt the guests did not have a solid explanation as to why “sex work” would no longer exist under a socialist society. How would a socialist society handle an individual that wanted to commodify their body? IMO relying completely on the materialist argument in this instance is not sufficient. Human socialization and psychology (not the easiest things to empirically study) will inevitably play a part in an individuals desire to take part in “sex work”.

    • @caymuscairns6845
      @caymuscairns6845 Před 2 dny

      I think their argument was more that sex work is perpetuated mainly by the conditions of capitalist society.

    • @serversurfer6169
      @serversurfer6169 Před 2 dny

      Yeah, they also didn't really explain why sex work is inherently more problematic than other forms of wage labor. Miners and construction workers are put at risk regularly, after all. Under communism it seems entirely possible that _some_ would prefer to work in a brothel than a mine. Are brothels not socially necessary? Again, some would say they are. 🤔

    • @basstrip73
      @basstrip73 Před 2 dny

      Asking how a future socialist society would deal with an individual who wanted to commodify their body is a cart before the horse question. There is a very long way to go before we achieve anything close to a society that could be called socialist or communist. Hell, post-2020 even the most milquetoast social democratic reform is no longer on the table and at this moment in time we are closer to slipping into a post-democratic dystopia with Mad Max characteristics than to anything resembling socialism. In our year of the lord 2024 worrying about what sex work under communism will look like is pure mental masturbation and a symptom of a left dominated by middle-class academics. It has no bearing on actually existing political and social reality.

    • @tmsphere
      @tmsphere Před 2 dny

      Seems to me like another one of those questions like "Are prisons obsolete?" bitch we live in capitalism with no socialist horizon in sight and you already trying to abolish the oldest human form of exchange, why not abolish the state first? How about abolishing ANY coerced demand? Seems waaayy overly ambitious to me to fantasize about a world with no prostitution. Like a world with no hunger or violence.

  • @ryri51
    @ryri51 Před 2 dny

    Yeah this woman is a straight up right wing grifter. The red fascists at TIR will platfirm anyone who says "wokeness bad."

  • @xuxArtemis
    @xuxArtemis Před 2 dny

    The Halluci Nation - R.E.D. Ft. Yasiin Bey, Narcy & Black Bear (Official Video) As a provider of at home end of life care 4 many family members fraught topic appreciate you broaching can't watch tho, this real meaning of Triggered, was just the Anniversary of losing my elder in my living room, she got the Dream the cost was high but Greatest honor of my life worth giving up my career would do it again in a heartbeat

  • @xuxArtemis
    @xuxArtemis Před 2 dny

    Check out Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury great album by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy strongly recommended by classic ChiTown peepz ;)

  • @Maryam-em3fb
    @Maryam-em3fb Před 3 dny

    Little Mermaid was fire!

  • @Will-zy3ru
    @Will-zy3ru Před 3 dny

    Gore Vidal became a lunatic conspiracy theorist after 9/11? Burgis is showing his bias here. There is nothing lunatic about Gore Vidal's post-9/11 suspiscions.

  • @dennisryan5586
    @dennisryan5586 Před 3 dny

    One thing I've noticed in my short time on this wet marble is how the perceived image of a regular or 'normal' middle-class lifestyle has changed over the years. I could be wrong, but I get the distinct impression that the way the 'average' American life or household is portrayed has moved from a typical middle-class, middle-income lifestyle in the 70's and 80's, to a more upper-middle or lower-upper class lifestyle. Houses are bigger, cars are pricier, furnishings are nicer...the new normal, or at least the one they want you to think of, is now markedly above the medium American income. It's this odd sort of gaslighting where they (corps, wealthy?) kind of want you to believe that 60-80% percentile life is now somehow the normal average American lifestyle, when in reality it's far from average.

  • @O_Draws
    @O_Draws Před 3 dny

    This is all fine and nice, but when are you gonna ring up Dan Larson and do an actual MotU episode for Pop Life?

  • @EvanWells1
    @EvanWells1 Před 4 dny

    This old or recent?

  • @fbicle7493
    @fbicle7493 Před 4 dny

    This is not true

  • @serversurfer6169
    @serversurfer6169 Před 4 dny

    Did a robot clip this? It seems to be two, partial thoughts. 😕

  • @serversurfer6169
    @serversurfer6169 Před 4 dny

    Re: Job Creation Capitalists don't create jobs, they _ransom_ jobs. 🤨 Zuck created Facebook, but it's _the needs of its three billion users_ (along with the needs of its untold number of customers) that creates jobs for almost seventy thousand people. 🤓

  • @CommunistConsensus
    @CommunistConsensus Před 4 dny

    What we have now is what happens, over time, when political sociopaths are afforded adult authority in a society. A political sociopath is someone who is willing to do harm to another for the sake of opportunity, social capital, hierarchy, profit and/or pleasure.

  • @BAsed_AFro
    @BAsed_AFro Před 5 dny

    Like, keep telling yourself like whatever makes you feel good about the covid jabs that you were like duped into getting, and be sure to enjoy like whatever it is that you think you get like out of having them. Meanwhile, like those of us that won't be participating are like all doing just fine today w zero issues or regrets... and like everyone knows it too.

    • @Atila-y3d
      @Atila-y3d Před 4 dny

      Nobody cares if you don't get the vaccine. You aren't going to usher in the revolution by being an anti science reactionary 🤷‍♂️

  • @BAsed_AFro
    @BAsed_AFro Před 5 dny

    Like, like... (like) the fact that these covid “vaccines” quite obviously failed to offer immunity to anything, renders the term "anti vax" moot.

  • @kyledrums
    @kyledrums Před 5 dny

    Kenzo rockin the Death tee.

  • @magnusskallagrimsson6707

    During the 2019 Canadian Federal election I had become very disenchanted with the direction of the New Democratic Party, which was becoming increasingly Centrist and incrementally neoliberal over decades. I had been considering voting for the Green Party of Canada, but they had adopted the slogan, "Neither Right nor Left, but Forward!" What was worse was how clueless the leader, Elizabeth May, was about the slogan, how dated and past its sell by date it was in the modern political climate. And in Canada we have no Federal Left Wing parties: we have three Centrist parties who are, to varying degrees, neoliberal incrementalists and two full bore Right Wing parties.

  • @freeradiomars
    @freeradiomars Před 5 dny

    No. It's widely known that 1935 was Cinema's golden year.

  • @dalisman
    @dalisman Před 5 dny

    There is a bug, though - they prove it to him over the phone by playing back tape

  • @guimich2478
    @guimich2478 Před 5 dny

    Dead Poets Society. RIP Robin Williams. Death shirt and With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness At The Gates!! Cool show

  • @Hic_Rhodus
    @Hic_Rhodus Před 6 dny

    Some of the ones I remember most from that year that got left out: War of the Roses, Dead Calm... and because I'm Irish... My Left Foot. But looking back... Weekend at Bernies and Back to the Future II were probably the two films I most wanted to see at the time.

  • @Jolemite00
    @Jolemite00 Před 6 dny

    ESPN Daily podcast put out an episode titled Death of a Sports town Oakland. It made me immediately think of the Count of the Carrot Raisin Slaw.

  • @padrianfrazier
    @padrianfrazier Před 6 dny

    Actually, there is one thing to say about Kevin Costner (speaking of 'Freaked'): 'I look at a guy like Kevin Costner and see a giant peach grub who can _fart_ the Blue Danube'

  • @padrianfrazier
    @padrianfrazier Před 6 dny

    I have loved 'Nothing but Trouble' since I was a kid. but I have to give best year to 1993 with the release of 'Freaked'. All-time favorite movie.

  • @harrygerakaris3263
    @harrygerakaris3263 Před 6 dny

    Hahaha for real!

  • @carlshepard9617
    @carlshepard9617 Před 6 dny

    Yalls point about the intensity of the reification to the point of rejecting the state. Are libertarians basically calling for the end of the dictatorship of the bourgeois because the class struggle is over due to us all being capitalists, because we at least own our bodies as capital lol.

  • @gfarrell80
    @gfarrell80 Před 6 dny

    Identity politics is all they have left.

  • @paul66766
    @paul66766 Před 6 dny

    Burgisisms Counter Uhh: 39 Umm: 17 Like: 9 Ya'know: 62 So: 9 Yeah: 7

  • @jonasfringe2793
    @jonasfringe2793 Před 6 dny

    Regarding "Sweden with Nukes": the basic frame really begs (or poses) the question: what, then, are states to each other?! If you assume real existing commodity production (or: "market socialism"?) to be a global system, warfare appears as a cruel mechanism of coordination and stabilization...?

  • @lurkerthree4544
    @lurkerthree4544 Před 6 dny

    Between the article and this video, the word "diagonalism" is spelled three different ways..

  • @j.m.g
    @j.m.g Před 6 dny

    Pascal is a national treasure

  • @zainmudassir2964
    @zainmudassir2964 Před 7 dny

    That's quite vaxxing

  • @charlesghost1683
    @charlesghost1683 Před 7 dny

    It's MToussaint! WE'RE SAVED!

  • @tom_rob
    @tom_rob Před 7 dny

    15:30 - Social-ism [ in the age of monarchy governing ] means.