Why they should legalize suicide

[chris8000]

Absolutely 100% agreed. Also with the current processes that allow euthanasia and assisted suicide (Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland to name a few), they do have strict criteria on who gets approved and who doesn't. I think in a more compassionate society, it would have to go further than that, extending these services to people who are suffering immensely mentally, psychologically, and not just physically or the terminally ill.

I think Netherlands is already there, as they have extended it to anyone 'with unbearable pain for the foreseeable future', including long term physical and mental health issues. One country out of hundreds isn't very helpful though.

Berlin posted a video of a woman in her early to mid twenties who was going through the process in Netherlands because of major depression I think it was. It took years and she did get assisted suicide in the end. Some of these people do get better and their opinion later on changes entirely so I understand why their system tries to support their recovery first, before supporting their death.

Besides suicide and euthanasia are two different things. Suicide is already legal in most countries because it's your body and they can't exactly arrest a corpse. With euthanasia, some one helps you, and people aren't usually too keen on helping people with that who they think may recover in a few months or years.