Dazed Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Dazed MagazineInstagram)「TikTok is a hell of a place: one moment you’re watching a baby capybara eating a banana, the next you’re seeing an influencer post about her grandmother’s decision to be euthanised 🍌⁠ ⁠ Texas-based model @ali_tate_cutler revealed her grandmother had chosen to die by euthanasia on TikTok earlier this week. She explains that her grandma (who she affectionately refers to as ‘Bubbie’) lives in Canada, where medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for people over the age of 18 has been legal since 2016.⁠ ⁠ According to Cutler, her grandma chose to be euthanised after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis.⁠ ⁠ Cutler’s videos on her grandma have since gone viral, with one clip of the pair getting ready to go out for dinner one last time amassing nearly 13 million views. Naturally, there’s been some backlash to the clips. “Why would you publicise this? So wrong,” one TikTok comment reads, while a Twitter user responded to the videos by saying “I might throw my phone out the window.” ⁠ ⁠ In recent years, there’s been a big pushback against posting all of our lives online, and broadcasting your grandma’s death is probably the worst thing you could possibly do in the eyes of people who think oversharing on social media is the root of all that is wrong with 21st-century life. But it's hard to see the issue with posting videos about death, really, if everyone involved consents to it, as Cutler’s grandma seems to have done. ⁠ ⁠ It’s refreshing to see euthanasia spoken about in such a plain, matter-of-fact way – especially in light of the sort of squeamishness towards death which pervades western culture and precludes such important, necessary conversations about dying. ⁠ ⁠ As writer @offbeatorbit posted on Twitter: “It’s actually good for more people to be more aware of end of life care and maybe you need to reflect on why you think this is something shameful and should be hidden. Do you but there’s nothing wrong about this woman sharing her grandma’s end of life journey.”⁠ ⁠ Read more through the link in our bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ ✍️ @s_mithereens⁠ 📷 TikTok via Ali Tate Cutler」5月28日 22時26分