I think people would feel free and the world would be a better place. As someone who has chronic illness and pain, but not terminal enough to qualify for current assisted dying in my country, it really makes me feel trapped. I have suffered so much for so long, and for all I know I could live many more years just getting worse. It is pretty scary to think about for me. I hope something like The Last Resort Sarco organization in Switzerland becomes more widely available. Philip Nitschke is really doing good work in my opinion. In the meantime, I have to find my own way.
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Doll Steak
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It should be, if someone wants to leave this world, let them. Its only right, especially given that nothing in existence chose to be.
As depressed as I am and as much as I hope to be gone in a couple of months... I don't know how to feel about this.
I do believe we should have the right to kill ourselves. I believe it should not be a crime.
But think how our society works... if it was made legal to kill yourself for any reason, not just terminal illnesses or chronic pain and such... if you or I could just walk in and buy a pill or pay for a service to be hooked up to a painless suicide booth... you know what would happen, right?
It would be a product/service and capitalism means companies would want to profit... which means they need customers... which means marketing and encouraging suicides. Big business wants you to buy their product, and since it's a one-off deal, it either has to cost a LOT or they need a LOT of customers... probably both if it is from a publicly traded company that has stockholders.
There would be no reason for such companies profiting in your death to care if you could be helped or cured. Which business makes more money? If they can keep a regular percentage of the population suicidal at the same time they outlaw abortion and other things to encourage higher birth rates... there would be a big industry designed around pumping out new depressed people to kill themselves by design for profit.
Think what happened in the for-profit prison industry. There became incentive to have criminals in prison for that profit... so kickbacks to police and judges, and stricter enforcement of laws, harsher punishments, intentional increased incentive towards recidivism, etc. etc.
So as much as I want the right to suicide if I see no other option... I feel scared at the scenario of it becoming another profitable corporate endeavor someday. Society sucks for a lot of us... instead of improving it, there would be even more incentive to keep it horrible.
I do believe we should have the right to kill ourselves. I believe it should not be a crime.
But think how our society works... if it was made legal to kill yourself for any reason, not just terminal illnesses or chronic pain and such... if you or I could just walk in and buy a pill or pay for a service to be hooked up to a painless suicide booth... you know what would happen, right?
It would be a product/service and capitalism means companies would want to profit... which means they need customers... which means marketing and encouraging suicides. Big business wants you to buy their product, and since it's a one-off deal, it either has to cost a LOT or they need a LOT of customers... probably both if it is from a publicly traded company that has stockholders.
There would be no reason for such companies profiting in your death to care if you could be helped or cured. Which business makes more money? If they can keep a regular percentage of the population suicidal at the same time they outlaw abortion and other things to encourage higher birth rates... there would be a big industry designed around pumping out new depressed people to kill themselves by design for profit.
Think what happened in the for-profit prison industry. There became incentive to have criminals in prison for that profit... so kickbacks to police and judges, and stricter enforcement of laws, harsher punishments, intentional increased incentive towards recidivism, etc. etc.
So as much as I want the right to suicide if I see no other option... I feel scared at the scenario of it becoming another profitable corporate endeavor someday. Society sucks for a lot of us... instead of improving it, there would be even more incentive to keep it horrible.
