I think we are heading this way too. suicidal people are considered criminals (by cops not legal system). Suicidal people are not allowed to have guns as if they are convicted felons!
There are also some news about younger generations choosing pets over children, and the decline in birth rates. I won't be surprised if conservatives make it harder to ctb even if a legalisation is required.
3rd world countries need to wake up. Life is so hard there so people have more reasons to ctb and not enough government resources to reconsider living. Instead of criminalizing ctb, they can allocate the funds to help suicidal people if they really want to save lives. Hint: they don't. they get off on humilating suicidal people
I admire the US constitution for its Bill of Rights, especially the 1st and 2nd Amendments.
The
2nd Amendment is such a wonderful thing to have, the right to bear arms (in most of the rest of the world, that right has been taken away almost completely). The downside to the right to bear arms is the fact that American cops are notoriously trigger-happy thugs. But having the constitutional right to bear arms at least gives one ready & easy access to a quick & reliable (if messy) means of CTB.
Third World countries are truly fucked up in terms of mental health. It's bad enough living in a messed up society in poverty and difficulty, but the way mental illness is regarded is truly horrendous.
Developing nations are not going to have a hard time changing that law. My family comes from a developing nation "shithole" as you put it, and it isn't about individualism in those kinds of countries. It is about a collective, and suicide in their eyes is usual a sin and destructive to the collective. Hell, I know people who have reacted to suicidal deaths like, "they were selfish" long after they died. You'd have to pour a bunch of money into education and fund those initiatives into those countries before any change would occur. Doubt anyone would be interested, though.
I live in a developing country or "shithole" myself. I mean, it really is one fucked up, overpopulated hellhole of a place.
However, to give due credit to my hellhole of a country, the government
decriminalised suicide here
just a few years ago. Thank God for small mercies!
You are right, it's never about individualism or individual rights in Third World countries, it's always about the powers of the collective or the government/regime.
If mental health is neglected and underfunded in the First World, then one can imagine how terrible it is in the Third World.
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