(June 4, 2018 at 10:50 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: So I know there are quite a few people here who have said that they support assisted suicide for any person who no longer wants to live, so long as they are an adult. The rationale is, a person has the right to end their life for any reason if they so choose, and there should therefore be a safe and painless options for them to do so.
For those people, my question is, do you feel then that it is not appropriate to call 911 when a friend tells you they will kill themselves, since you are preventing them from doing something they have a right to do? Do you think we should lay off the whole suicide prevention thing, and just let people choose for themselves, and not make suicide into this thing we should prevent people from doing?
This is out of context as to what we mean, and please do not assume only atheists are for assisted suicide.
Of course I will call 911. No, what we mean is in the case of non terminal suicide is after the fact, not during or before. We are not going to judge someone for doing it. That does not mean in the case of non terminal suicide we are saying we wouldn't try to prevent it.
Mental illness has a stigma attached to it. All we mean, if in the unfortunate case that someone is successful we would not judge them. CL if you or Minn or anyone I know says they want to kill themselves, and they are NOT terminal, I certainly would try to get them help.
Assisted suicide is human for the terminally ill. You can't mix that in with mental illness which is different.
And I get to speak on this because I have been suicidal and I am glad I didn't, but I certainly would want someone to try to save me.
