What are your thoughts on assisted suicide?

[Bouncing Betty]

I work in a long term care home for veterans in a dementia unit, surrounded by people who spent their lives serving their country and the people they loved. I am surrounded by suffering daily. I see the families suffering too. If you’ve been in the position to watch someone you love suffer the fate of dementia slowly progressing to a point they forget how to eat and starve, you know. I often think of how if there was an option for these people to go out with agency, at a time they got to decide, without pain and suffering, and with a proper goodbye to their loved ones, I think they would have taken it. I’m relieved taboos around assisted suicide are diminishing because it gives me hope that people like us won’t suffer this way when we’re all old.

 

[Bill Murray]

Nembutal/pentobarbital should be sold OTC.

 

[sleepydawg]

Terminally ill people have the right to die with dignity and without pain

 

[Broadsword]

For it.

 

[whiteboyopie]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

I spent 7 months in hospice. My body " rebounded". I am the 3red person in that hospice centers 18 years who walked out the front door.
I am 100 % in favor of assisted depature.

 

[Se7en]

Canada will soon offer doctor-assisted death to the mentally ill. Who should be eligible?

nationalpost.com

I, personally, don’t have a stance on MAID (Medical Aid in Dying), but I was wondering what you all thought about assisted suicide. Should it be legal everywhere?

Yes it noones choice but your own. The law should also include kill on sight orders of those opposed

Yes it noones choice but your own. The law should also include kill on sight orders of those opposed

But 4real. Yes i support it

I'm all for it ... but I think it should be a yearly event where whoever wants to die goes to a pre determined place where they have an orgy then mid orgy everyone is crushed to death with a giant fly swatter

🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[fourteen.eighty.eight]

If you can’t do it yourself you’re a pussy
If you wanna kill yourselves be men about it and go off in the woods and end it leave em a mystery

 

[Blanche Hudson]

Yes! Suicide should be legal for anyone over 18. And it has made places like Dignitas have to charge up to $50,000 plus travel and other costs to go to Europe to do it. I watched too many people die miserably l.

 

[mrln]

assisted suicide cant be worse than the state putting an innocent guy to death.

 

[cupboard22]

Just imagine yourself shitting your pants with not being able to move, jerk off, or anything, and a lot of pain. People looking at you with mercy or disgust always. Of course, you should be able to kill yourself, what the hell. The only reason why is not widely available is because of some kind of religious heritage in our culture, like anti-semitism.

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

Dying from some diseases, especially cancer, is like being slowly tortured to death in agony that you cant express because you can move and talk and make noise. If someone wants to cut that off short before they get to that state I see no reason why they shouldn't have that right to take an OD of morphine and drift away in bliss. Of course it should be approved by a doctor. But I have to say, as someone who when he was 20 seriously tried to kill himself and failed. I'm so happy I did. I'm so grateful to be alive even though it suck sometimes, particularly right now. I'm almost 30 and when I look back at that stupid 20 year old it's like it's a different person. I can't imagine now doing what I did then. So, if someones young or appears to have nothing wrong with them except mental problems then doctors should hold off on helping them die until they try other things and they are older.

 

[Lucius]

this is something I’m interested in the future. When I was 20 I fell 24 feet onto concrete and broke my lower back and broke multiple bones in my foot. The way things are going now I don’t think I’ll make it past 40 I’ll be 30 in 2 more years. We will see tho I do everything I can to stay learn so there’s extra when on my fucked up bones/joints

 

[Kmpalmer]

Go for it👍

 

[slur]

hell yeah id do it

 

[JamieSKap]

I personally always thought Dr. Jack Kevorkian was ahead of his time ever since the whole thing w/ him came up back in the mid/late '90's, so all for it.

I think one of the main reasons medically assisted suicide is illegal has to do w/ the religious stigma surrounding the topic of just suicide in general, however I believe we're generally talking about terminal patients who are suffering here. With that said, mindsets change and medicine and technology advances over time therefore likely many people feel much different about such a topic today as opposed to in time's past when such heavy stigma's were held and such laws were created. Not always easy to change the way things are.

For anyone who wasn't around or following the whole ordeal during the Doc K assisted suicide trials, wikipedia link provided below, first paragraph or two should do a decent enough job at summing up what he's known for...
Jack Kevorkian - Wikipedia.

 

[Jltnov22]

I'm all for it. I have the book The Peaceful Pill and it covers all aspects of sucide. Even going out of country to have assisted suicide where its legal. Sweden or Switzlerland, can't remember which. I will go by suicide. I currenlty take care of my ailing father but when he goes, I will follow shortly. Carbon monoxide is my planned poison to off myself when my father passes away. I am only alive to help take care of him.

 

[pharaoh313]

it would get my vote

 

[McM]

Suicide should be legal for anyone over 18

Where is it illegal? Not heard from someone who got arrested because they tried to kill themself.

I always thought only assistance or active help to perform suicide is permitted in many countries.

 

[Blanche Hudson]

Where is it illegal? Not heard from someone who got arrested because they tried to kill themself.

I always thought only assistance or active help to perform suicide is permitted in many countries.

Yes you’re right. Suicide by your own hand is legal.

But yet assisted is still illegal in many countries. I work in the mortuary profession and I’ve heard so many families talk about the right to die on your own terms. It’s truly stupid to me why we can’t go out like a dog or cat would.

 

[evil genius]

To have an opinion on it would mean I care. Therefore I don’t mind at all. We are all gonna die someday anyways why not have the option to pick. I get how weaker people would want to just end it. Life truly sucks most of the time for most everyone. Nonetheless I digress I’ve thought about it a few times but then I remember I’m greedy and I like to talk shit and cause mental and emotional trauma and being dead makes that way fuckin harder so I choose to live. Which brings me to the zero fucks given theory. Once zero fucks given is achieved life all of a sudden rocks… crazy multidimensional universe we live in thats for sure.