Iām sure someone with motor neuron disease might have a different opinion.
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Or somebody denied the right to wear their own clothes in prison.
Itās not about mental illness, itās people with zero quality of life, in pain and not gonna get any better
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Some people are suggesting it for mental illness.
Either way Iām against it. New treatments might be found, new painkillers, whatever. It must be awful but I donāt think I could ever agree with the state, or definitely not some private operator, killing people
I think itās allowing personal choice.
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I respect that. I can totally see why people are for it, but itās not for me
Itās not for you now, but I donāt feel anyone has the right to deny another person the right to choose their passing. Thatād be my take on it.
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Thatās perfectly logical. For terminal, extremely painful illnesses I can maybe get on board with it (well, actually no, I canāt).But, there was a time in my life where I wanted to be dead. Genuinely thought it was the only thing for me. Iād probably have signed up for it were it available. Iād be concerned others may follow suit, were it available.
I think we have to be very careful with it.
Personal choice may be skewed as @Batigol has alluded to. And there is no going back.
For me, itās for those with a physical illness, with absolutely no hope for recovery, in pain, and are well on the way to dying. This is not a solution for those with mental illness, or who are suicidal. Read the article, this is laid out quite clearly.
Mental illness can be as debilitating as physical illness. Thereās so much hypocrisy about suicide prevention. Yes people are well meaning but also they just want to salve their own consciences. Thereās always talk about the people left behind. Well, what about the suicidal person, maybe theyāre better off, and if they were still alive, theyād be worse off. People who take their own lives in war or terrorism or via āglorious self sacrificeā get celebrated as martyrs. So why is somebody who starves themselves to death from an eating disorder or throws themselves off a building any less ābraveā or worthy of adulation? Maybe we all try to attach too much meaning to life. Maybe life has no meaning. We all die in the end anyway. Life has no meaning to you then. For many people, life has no meaning when theyāre alive. But if it doesnāt have meaning, thereās no point being alive.
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I saw the Louis Theroux thing on this years ago and the agents they sent out to assist with setting up seemed off.
This is probably one of those on the edge cases that people might argue shouldnāt pass threshold to allow assisted dying
Would you argue that sheād be better off be found hanging from a tree?
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Life is tricky . You canāt always save people from
themselves.
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It makes me very uneasy how often I see mental health services blamed for peopleās suicides.
There seems to be a default reaction in society now to BLAME somebody else for things which just happen, which canāt really be prevented.
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