Hello, I’m new to this forum.
Having lived with sucidal ideation for nearly all of my life, and having survived several botched attempts, I have evolved towards a philosophical position that asserts a right to suicide for adults. Â It seems that our culture does not fully respect that each of us come in to the world against our will and consequently develop vastly different attitudes towards life. Our will to live is largely dependent on our individual experience, usually from early childhood, as well as whatever neurochemical makeup we may have inherited.
It’s true that many overcome traumatic experiences, but then again many do not. Those who reach their 30s , 40s and 50s and are still chronically suicidal are insultingly treated by the mental health field as adolescents who haven’t grown up. This is intolerable and it’s time that more people openly rejected this path and began a movement to demand a painless path to death for those who seek it. Â I think we can use some lobbying support in Congress.
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Well you do have a right to your own autonomy. You can choose anytime under your discretion how to live or die. There are no real constraints or real law that says you cant die.
But what do you propose we should lobby in congress?
It should not be the responsibility of a governing body to provide a means of euthanasia. Maybe allow physician assisted suicide but thats strictly regulated to only terminally ill patients and those who are not seeking suicide out of impulse and temporary issues.
But what would deem someone ready to die? Like criteria?