Shouldn't the right to die be a human right?

[Catholic_Lady]

Do you think this should be restricted only to those who are terminally ill? Or at least permanently debilitated enough to where their quality of life is greatly diminished?

Or should it be open to whoever wishes to die?

Imo, if someone who is physically able wishes to die, then there are plenty if ways then can die without assistance. However, these are likely to be painful, risk causing permanent and severe physical damage that does not result in death, and risk causing severe mental distress to whoever discovers or otherwise has to process the body.

If assisted suicide can offer a painless and dignified end as an alternative, I don't see why it shouldn't be available to those who aren't terminally ill/incurable as well as those who are, provided appropriate safeguards are in place.

That's a good thing though. Because the thought of it being scary and dangerous helps deter people from actually following though. 

I'm not gonna lie, I am very surprised by the responses of this thread. A while back ago we were all extremely worried about a member of this forum after he had made a string of suicidal posts. We organized that someone who lived in his country call the police, who broke down his door in the middle of the night to save him or stop him from whatever he might try to do.

...So it's puzzling for me to see so many people here saying we should not only refrain from trying to deter a suicidal person, but that we should be making suicide easier and more available to them also. I mean, what??

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I feel like it would be a disservice to those dying of brain cancer to say that we are all terminally ill.

Any particular reason that you picked brain cancer? Won't any non treatable/non remittable disease do?

They are just closer to the terminal end. Hopefully I'm closer than you. Is that a disservice?

Brain cancer was just the example that came to mind.