[Serious Thread] Assisted Suicide.

[Darius871]

Is there any point at all in prefixing a Thread Title with [Serious Thread] when it will just end up with puerile plots to nuke Canada or Israel and gratuitous Trolling anyway?

Oh quit whining; whether Drake's being "serious" or not, he's making damned good points regardless. The problem isn't so much suicide or diminishing the "sanctity of life" in and of itself, but rather the fact that people are such selfish pussies that they refuse to do the wetwork themselves. Getting dead is just about one of the easiest things in the world to do, as the Darwin Awards have taught us many a time, so there's no purpose to getting someone else's hands dirty.

[notyoueither]

You wouldn't trade six more months with a loved one for having to assist?

[Drake Tungsten]

I would never ask a loved one to kill me.

[notyoueither]

I am doubting very much you have ever been anywhere near that valley, personally.

[Monk]

Oh quit whining; whether Drake's being "serious" or not, he's making damned good points regardless. The problem isn't so much suicide or diminishing the "sanctity of life" in and of itself, but rather the fact that people are such selfish pussies that they refuse to do the wetwork themselves. Getting dead is just about one of the easiest things in the world to do, as the Darwin Awards have taught us many a time, so there's no purpose to getting someone else's hands dirty.

Eh ... unless you just want a peaceful death near somebody you love? I'm assuming that if she swallowed four dozens of Valium pills in the presence of her husband, he could be held responsible for not immediately calling health authorities to come and shock her back to life. Or the attempt could fail and she could end up in a state where she couldn't request to die in any country.

Can't really see the problem here. Can't see why it was a problem for British authorities to grant the couple this request either - would the Brits prosecute a citizen for helping somebody to Amsterdam to smoke pot, or to Germany for driving fast on the autobahn?

[Thoth]

The world will be a better place when we can "assist" Wiggy with his suicide.

[Drake Tungsten]

I can't believe you would spam a [serious thread].

[Thoth]

Pot. Kettle. Black.

'Nuff said.

[Drake Tungsten]

All of my posts in this thread were seriously serious until NYE started the foreign policy threadjack.

[notyoueither]

Actually, it was and is about you, still. Not about US foreign policy, but your support for it as opposed to your shrieking and hysterics that ordinary citizens would want control over their lives and deaths.

[Drake Tungsten]

I've never questioned that people should have control over their own deaths. I questioned the motives and propriety of people who hand over that control to sketchy European death merchants or force it on their loved ones.

[notyoueither]

And I seriously doubt you have ever been anywhere near a situation where this thread's topic would be an issue.

If you had you might be expected to have an iota of empathy for families dealing with the prospect of the death of a loved one due to a debilitating disease.

Here's a short course. If I could have prolonged the happiness of any of the people who I have been close to who have died after some form of wasting condition by having to push the plunger myself at some later date, I would have done it, gladly. With bells on.

This is as much for the survivors as for the close to departed, you waste of a human nervous system.

[Thoth]

Give it up NYE, Drake would rather people suffer in misery than die with dignity.

[Drake Tungsten]

There's nothing dignified about pushing the responsibility for your death onto someone else because you're too scared or selfish to handle it yourself.

If I could have prolonged the happiness of any of the people who I have been close to who have died after some form of wasting condition by having to push the plunger myself at some later date, I would have done it, gladly. With bells on.

So you're a potential murderer, then. Good to know.

[notyoueither]

Why do you feel responsibilty for death is pushed onto someone else?