The high-tech future of assisted suicide is here. The world isn’t ready.
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If there is the right to live, there should be the right to kill yourself
You mean you chose to be born?
I will never forgive my parents for not asking me for my consent
I mean, technically, you are given with a chance to kill yourself every single moment. The reason why you’re alive is because you choose to continue living.
But yeah, I didn’t have the option not to be born. I would’ve probably selected not to if I knew the world is this shitty and fucked. Lol.
It's all obvious yeah. We (choose to) live mostly because we don't have those powers to know how shitty and fucked the world is going to become in the future. Some even realize they build their own future.
Me, I think you are free to do anything with your life. But you are most likely missing a lot if you think the best thing to do is to end yourself, at any point.
There’s a lot of missing life even with living.
By habit, a lot of people will choose to see the negatives at all times and complain about those negatives meanwhile the good people and positives pass by uncounted.
Not saying that’s a reason to die but it isn’t exactly observing your life honestly and without toxifying it.seems a wasted life in both accounts.
maybe
to choose you’d have to be alive to make choice which is the paradox with that idea.
Yeah, which means there’s no way you can choose not to be born
Find out what is legal in your state: https://compassionandchoices.org/in-your-state/
Fantastic charity/advocacy group there too.
They seem to distance themself from anything in sarco-pod territory, though.
Not much help when you're "not suffering enough" but can't get what you need. And things are only going to get worse in the near future.
I have issues with the idea of assisted suicide. Killing oneself should be ur right but if u dont have the strength to do it urself then u dont deserve it.
Wait until you have parents or other elderly loved ones that are slowly rotting and wasting away in front of you, unable to do anything to end their own suffering due to being severely incapacitated and then come back with that incredibly short-sighted belief. We give more compassion to the end-of-life of our pets than our elderly.
this. alzheimers is a bitch. by the time its so bad all quality of life is gone you are to incompetent to make the call.
i agree! if a disabled person cant feed themselves they dont deserve to eat
Darwinian evolution is a bitch.
didnt humans become dominant by our ability to form cohesive groups through social bonds?
an evolved trait, so he's wrong even if he's right lol
i hope you have people that are compassionate towards you.
Why are you mad that I'm agreeing with you? I'm in favor of the right to choose your own death. I was adding that our ability to form cohesive groups and socially bond was itself an evolutionarily selected for trait seeing as how it's been a main factor in our species' ability to survive and thrive.
big oof, i apologise, thought you were op and meant it the other way round.
Apply your logic to the concept of eating. It should be your right, but if you don't have the strength to do it yourself then you don't deserve it. Right?
Yep thats pretty much it.