RE: Shouldn't the right to die be a human right?
December 19, 2016 at 12:21 am
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2016 at 12:22 am by bennyboy.)
Pool, let me ask you this. If your mother or sister or best friend is depressed and announces, "Okay, enough of this. I'm going to kill myself." What do you do? Do you support their "human right" to commit suicide? Do you help mama pull the trigger? What if it's a friend with insomnia? What if it's someone who just broke up with their "soulmate" and can't handle the pain?
No, it's generally considered highly abnormal for someone to choose to die, and so we prevent people from killing themselves. We believe that depression, especially due to specific circumstances, may eventually be relieved or better coped with, and that the person still has the chance to live a productive life.
That's the thing-- normally, simply the act of wanting to die can be taken as mental infirmity. There's something WRONG with a person who wants to die, and we must help them to overcome the underlying issues, rather than simply to escape their current negative feelings by ended all their future prospects with a bullet or a vial of hemlock.
No, it's generally considered highly abnormal for someone to choose to die, and so we prevent people from killing themselves. We believe that depression, especially due to specific circumstances, may eventually be relieved or better coped with, and that the person still has the chance to live a productive life.
That's the thing-- normally, simply the act of wanting to die can be taken as mental infirmity. There's something WRONG with a person who wants to die, and we must help them to overcome the underlying issues, rather than simply to escape their current negative feelings by ended all their future prospects with a bullet or a vial of hemlock.
