Suicide Can SAVE Lives... Legalize assisted-suicide.

[TydalWave]

I believe the right to live goes hand in hand with the right to die. It is a fundamental human right.

Our society spends way too many resources trying to obstruct and prevent people from having this right, while we neglect those who are dying and WANT to live.

Each day in the U.S, 17 people die waiting for a donor on the organ transplant list. That is over 6,000 people every year who want to live but cannot get healthy organs in time. There were 45,000 suicides in the U.S. in 2020, out of which around 40% were of ages 15-44. Even if only a third had healthy organs we would still have enough to save everyone on the organ transplant list.

Suicide has a bad stigma in society. And I don't think we should make it easy, but I do think we should provide a safe assisted path for those who have gone through all the right channels for recovery and are fully committed to CTB. If we were to offer assisted-suicide, we would be able to save the organs for healthy individuals that would actually save lives of others who WANT to live. That is 6,000 lives that could be saved in the U.S. alone every year. Even if you don't think suicide is right, this has to make sense right???

https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics
https://www.organdonor.gov/learn/organ-donation-statistics

 

[willitpass]

it makes me very sad to know that because of the nature of my method i will not be found until my organs are dead tissue and not viable for organ donation. i hope that i accidentally die in a car accident or have an out of the blue cardiac arrest that makes it so that my organs can be donated. it's something i feel very strongly about but when you plan on hanging in the woods and not being found very a minimum of several hours there will be nothing left to donate

 

[jodes2]

It sounds like a good plan! But no, that would be taking advantage of the vulnerable they might say

 

[gomenasai]

Suicide has a bad stigma in society. And I don't think we should make it easy, but I do think we should provide a safe assisted path for those who have gone through all the right channels for recovery and are fully committed to CTB.

I think the society should make it possible for anyone who wishes to die, even if they don't want to seek help. Who are we to impose our beliefs on others? If they want to die, then they should be able to have a peaceful exit. But I think there should be some "waiting period" and that safe assisted path should not be approved right away (to discourage impulsive suicidal behavior).

 

[TydalWave]

I think the society should make it possible for anyone who wishes to die, even if they don't want to seek help. Who are we to impose our beliefs on others? If they want to die, then they should be able to have a peaceful exit. But I think there should be some "waiting period" and that safe assisted path should not be approved right away (to discourage impulsive suicidal behavior).

Couldn't agree more. Even if it was incredibly hard to get approved, it would be a step in the right direction.

 

[FuneralCry]

Yes, that does make sense. Even know I would personally wish for peaceful methods to be easily accessible, there should at least be some assisted suicide option for everyone who wishes to be gone even if there is some waiting process involved. I would happily wait in order to receive a peaceful death, to me it's just so wrong how people have to exit this life in violent and risky ways with the chance of their attempt failing and being 'saved' by others.

I hate the view that society has that life must be prolonged at all costs even if the person wishes to leave this world. Those who wish to live should be able to and those who wish to die should be able to. Someone voluntarily choosing to leave a life behind that they never asked for could simply never be a bad thing or something that is wrong. It's our life and our decision after all.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Absolutely agree- with the supporting framework to ensure people are sure about their decision and beyond help or can rationally make the decision they don't want more help- this sounds wonderful.

SO many people here would love the opportunity to help someone else to live. It comes up so much in threads. Someone even once suggested hospitals- or at least facilities close by should be equipt with Sarco Pods. They don't even require a physician present and presumably don't harm the organs.

 

[gomenasai]

Everyone who wishes to die should have an assisted suicide option and get approved to die after the waiting period is over.

I think even people who are very mentally ill and live in mental hospitals, often for life - somebody should make that decision for them as controversial as this sounds and is, unless they wish to keep living.

I believe every person knows they're suffering and that this is not how they're supposed to live even if they have serious mental problems and we shouldn't just let the most vulnerable among us rot in mental hospitals for decades, just because it's not ethical to make that decision for them.

We can't solve everything in life by being politically correct, just so that we can feel good about ourselves, while we could change things for others whose lives are beyond repair. This would be the right thing to do. Unless they want to live, which they should if they want to, we should put them out of their misery.