The linking of her death to her research is the lie. I've never read her book but I may get to it one day.
uh, not is isn't. she ended up in a mental health facility toward the end of the "experiment" she was doing.
she was a hardcore feminist who grew to detest women.
Yeah I'm sure the obsession with sex (I refuse to use the made up word "gender") and feminism, to the point where she actually dedicated YEARS OF HER LIFE to research the male condition, and she learned that men have it fucking awful, and she began to despise women for how they treat men... none of that had anything to do with her decision to be euthanized.
Also, wtf is with this "euthanasia" for people who aren't actually fucking dying of some fatal illness or something similar? I saw another article about a spike in Canadians committing assisted suicide (murder) simply because they're struggling with their finances. The Canadian government allowing facilities like this to exist, and allowing the practice of "assisted suicide" is so fucking sinister, so disgusting, everyone involved should be euthanized.
Don't doctors swear an oath? "First, do no harm"? If a patient comes to a doctor and says "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, DOC, I LOST MY JOB, MY GIBS ARE MEASLY BECAUSE I AM WHITE IN CANADA, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL TO DO, I WANT TO DIE, I CAN'T TAKE THIS!", there should not be even an option of treatment as "Kill the poor bastard". That's literally what the doctor prescribes, dressed up in flowery language. What should happen if a patient comes in having a nervous breakdown: set them up with a therapist, maybe some meds to calm them down (short term) and help them pull themselves together. Not offer to painlessly murder them. THAT IS NOT MEDICAL TREATMENT.
I am okay with voluntary euthanasia for people with terminal illnesses. If they find out "I've only got 10 years max to live, everything sucks for me right now, I don't see it getting better in the next 10 years, I don't want to spend the last of my life suffering in agony, I'm going on a world tour, and when I get back two years from now, I'm going to check out for good." That's something I believe any adult should be allowed. If they're actually deadly sick, not just because they're fucking sad or struggling.
She also wrote a non-fiction book about the suicide of Virginia Woolf and tried to commit suicide while writing it and after it was written. In her own words, she was writing it as a suicide note. https://lithub.com/author/norah-vincent/
According to a past friend, she was suffering with depression and was on meds prior to her research for self-made man. https://spectator.org/losing-norah-vincent/
To point to something that she did 16 years prior to her assisted suicide and saying that it's THE cause of her death is disingenuous to down right disinformation.
On the assisted suicide and mental health, I'm on the fence with it. The examples that you give in Canada, where someone that's down on their luck is given the OK, no, I think that's horrific. It's the sign of a society that is sick. I've even seen reports of veterans being almost urged to go through assisted by the Canadian VA...
We don't live in a healthy society in the least and I don't expect we will for awhile or ever again.
The Canadian government benefits from this assisted murder because these people who are down with nothing to lose might pose a problem. What a clean way to handle crushing your citizenry: if you're having trouble on our treadmill, just off yourself, we'll help you do it cleanly and painlessly. Help us avoid the consequences of our policies.
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