I should start by saying: it is good that we have laws preventing genuinely predatory individuals from exploiting the vulnerable, either because they stand to gain financially or simply because they gain sick pleasure from it. Inciting a non-suicidal person to commit suicide should be a criminal offence.
That said, these laws often go to far and serve to isolate suicidal people from their friends, loved ones, and support networks, leaving us feeling isolated and unsupported. I would like to be able to have conversations with people in which I express my suicidality and receive a genuinely empathetic, compassionate response, not just discouragement.
It is frustrating that any encounter with a medical professional includes them framing my desires as pathological, when, as I see it, the pathology is my state of living. I wish to be dead and want help obtaining that state, but legally nobody can provide that.
That said, these laws often go to far and serve to isolate suicidal people from their friends, loved ones, and support networks, leaving us feeling isolated and unsupported. I would like to be able to have conversations with people in which I express my suicidality and receive a genuinely empathetic, compassionate response, not just discouragement.
It is frustrating that any encounter with a medical professional includes them framing my desires as pathological, when, as I see it, the pathology is my state of living. I wish to be dead and want help obtaining that state, but legally nobody can provide that.
