Do you think assisted suicide will ever be legal in the us?

[whatsthepoint]

(Don't know why "US" isn't capitalized in the title. I definitely tried to capitalize it, but it's not showing up that way. Sorry for any confusion that may cause.)

I feel like this country is so goddamned uncompassionate, and it's just trending more and more towards an advocacy of outright sociopathy. The chances of assisted suicide ever being legalized, at least during my lifetime, seem to be slim-to-none. I might very well die of natural causes (or kill myself; whichever comes first) before that happens. I have many chronic digestive disorders that cause me a ton of pain, but does society care about that? Of course not. I'm supposed to shut up and earn a living, even if doing so is slowly killing me due to stress and anxiety. And it doesn't help, either, that jobs are becoming more and more scarce here these days, especially for autistic people like me. (Nor does it help that I'm not a typical autistic person, in that I have no interest in Computer Science or coding.) I had to try to apply for jobs for 8 long, depressing years before I finally got my current job as a Library Page, and even that job is too much for me.

I just want out. I want some sort of hope that I'll someday be able to humanely and safely kill myself and end my daily misery. Yet it seems like that sort of hope is beyond me.

 

[deflagrat]

I thought they were selling guns in USA, isn't that like telling you "go for it I don't care"? That's what I would understand if I was from USA.

 

[Deleted member 847]

I thought they were selling guns in USA, isn't that like telling you "go for it I don't care"? That's what I would understand if I was from USA.

I agree. Just take some drugs and press the goddamn button

 

[Comatose11]

I thought they were selling guns in USA, isn't that like telling you "go for it I don't care"? That's what I would understand if I was from USA.

Not everyone can get a gun though. :/ I cannot because I've been in the mental hospital.

 

[Aponia & Ataraxia]

Not everyone can get a gun though. :/ I cannot because I've been in the mental hospital.

That post your referring to isn't exactly advocating using guns...

 

[Comatose11]

That post your referring to isn't exactly advocating using guns...

I know, I was just saying that people exaggerate how easy it is to get guns here.

 

[Justanotherconsumer]

There are a few states, but only if you are terminally ill, and even then they dont make it easy, if they were truly compassionate they could put you under with general anaesthesia.

 

[Morning Angel]

The chances of assisted suicide ever being legalized, at least during my lifetime, seem to be slim-to-none.

I agree. I think only Oregon and California allow death with dignity and even in these states it's only permitted for such limited cases. So long as we continue to have political forces at work doing "right to live" advocacy it's going to take a lot of time and advocacy. It would also require more states incrementally adopting euthanasia, which will take decades to create precedence. A lot of the anti-euthanasia groups tend to be religious groups and their dogma has a strong influence on a lot of policies in the U.S.

 

[Morning Angel]

I think only Oregon and California allow death with dignity

I need to correct this, there are a handful of other states in the U.S. (e.g. CO, DC) that have euthanasia but I don't know the legalities around it.

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

As long as the Jesus freaks have their way their won't be. :( They just prefer to let people suffer to "Preserve" life no matter how bad the quality of life is.

 

[No1SpecL2U]

I agree. Just take some drugs and press the goddamn button

Lost my father this way at 3, 20 years later my best friend the same. Witnessing the mess and aiding in cleaning up didn't help. I've been suicidal with my own personal arms and even with the amount of times I've put one of them to my head, I obviously haven't done it and can't go out that way.

If it was that simple, why not keep trying to hang yourself daily after intoxicated until you're gone? We can all use the get it right excuse, but then just don't let a minute pass without trying to succeed if now is exactly our moment.

 

[CRM]

For the terminally ill, yes. It will take some time to be federal law, though.

On demand? No. I think that American society would collapse before that would be a thing.