Discussion If suicide / euthanasia was made legal, how do you think it would impact society?

[Singing In The Rain]

Do you think suicides would increase?

 

[Cody111]

It would change my view of society, because i would no longer be a participant.

There is currently a debate in my state about euthanasia laws and its likely they will impliment them in the coming years.
This will however be based off the Origin model which is only for terminally ill with life expectancy below an arbitrary number.

 

[worldexploder]

In Oregon, were euthanasia is legal for the dying, 75% of the people didn't take the Nembutal but almost all of them said that it gave them comfort knowing that the option was avalible. I personally believe that having the option of death for people like us may decrease the rate of suicides. Not for me personally but for many.

If we had a hypothetical system were people like us had to go though 3 or even 6 months of therapy before being offered Nembutal, many would turn it down and there would be a decrease in painful suicides.

 

[Cody111]

If you look at reports from nederlands, they say the rate of suicide has not increased since the legalization of assisted dying or whateverr term they use, it has remained steady. The only thing that changed is the that there is now a more peaceful option.