They said, "for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a)". They're just saying that legally. Cuz, you know, riots from family members of the deceased mentally ill person that could have been saved but that "the government helped kill"?
I dont understand why people think like this?! like mental illness isnt equal or worse, (which most of the time it is worse) when comparing to physical illnesses. I guess its because, if the "naked eye" can actually see your limitations from your chronic illness or disability, (like being in a wheelchair for example), then thats why its deemed "okay to do" and more understanding or acceptable from society, when people with physical illnesses get accepted for euthanasia. This is because people could actually see with their own eyes, the tremendous amount of pain and suffering that the person was going through, which is why if they actually could see on the inside of whats going on in the brain, i think more people would understand why people with mental illness should also be granted euthanasia. But because people cannot actually "see this with their own eyes" what is going on, and most are too lazy to even go down that route, they feel if euthanasia clinics help the mentally ill to die its disgraceful, but yet were to fucking lazy to actually help or listen to that person that has depression etc because mental illness is not VISIBLE to the naked eye and involves more work to learn about and truly understand. Its so ignorant because it actually stems down to laziness, because since they cannot see the illness they act like we dont have any real and horrible chronic issues to deal with on a daily basis and that everything is ok, when its obviously 100% not. This is why i said before, the only way to prove to society that people with mental illnesses are really suffering is to do spect, fmri brain scans, and let those people go through a 1 year therapy/vitamin/medication route, just to prove and SHUT THESE PROLIFERS up, that we tried all x amount options and nothing is able to work still, even when we did everything we could. If it were me i wouldnt want anyone with mental illness to have to "prove"that they are really suffering, but unfortunately this would be the only way to show these lazy ignorant assholes how life is impossible for us, just like people that have physical illness have, and get mostly accepted for euthanasia. The doctors in the clinics already know we are suffering, it is the reaction that they are scared to get from non logical, and ignorant full of rage, and emotional, family members, because of the typical ignorant stigma on mental illness "they weren't in that much pain", which is just like hint hint, bullshit fthe26. They use their ignorant emotions, over factual knowledge and of course follow the stigma, people with mental illness are not suffering and can get better....then why tf arent we when we tried every option out there for countless amounts of years? Theres no cure and the brain scan would prove and settle all this once and for all.