Discussion Assisted dying

[peaceindeath]

Anyone with mental illness who has experience with applying for assisted suicide? Please give me some advice

 

[HaveToEndIt]

Unless you live in the Netherlands or Belgium, they won't let you. Organizations like Dignitas in Switzerland offer assisted suicide only to terminally ill people.

 

[Georg]

You mean like Dignitas? They will only "help" you when you are almost dead.

 

[befree]

Organizations like Dignitas in Switzerland offer assisted suicide only to terminally ill people.

Wrong.

 

[Jezzibell]

A lot of them require that you live in that country like Belgium and Holland.

This girls death was widely reported as euthanasia but apparently this wasn't the case

Dutch girl was not 'legally euthanised' and died at home

Noa Pothoven is believed to have refused to eat and there is no evidence of assisted death

www.theguardian.com

Holland seems to be the place for this is Holland.
Read this with stats

Euthanasia and assisted suicide in patients with personality disorders: a review of current practice and challenges - Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation

Background Over the last two decades an increasing number of countries have legalized euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) leading to considerable debate over the inherent ethical dilemmas. Increasing numbers of people with personality disorders, faced with unbearable suffering, have...

bpded.biomedcentral.com

And if you haven't seen this two part series. Its a must. Its a documentary filmed in America with people like us who choose to die

Louis Theroux: Altered States - Series 1: 2. Choosing Death

Louis Theroux meets people preparing to take a lethal but legally prescribed overdose.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[HerculePoirot]

Wrong.

Please elaborate.

 

[befree]

Please elaborate.

Assisted suicide in Switzerland?

Hi everyone, Does anyone know much about this option? Is it hard? I'm not a swiss national but can travel and I have some money to pay for the thing. I'd like to die but I believe this is a blissful way to die. Can anyone advise please and be acurate.

sanctioned-suicide.net