If it's because someone is depressed, I would say try treatment. However, there was somewhere I think, not long ago, where a guy choose assisted suicide because he had incurable alcoholism and depression. In other words he was in such misery, and his health was suffering so much, that it was deemed terminal.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-dutch-...depression
In the Netherlands, I know, this is a thing. But lets not strawman people by saying this is the opinion of all Atheists or Progressives. Myself I do see some merit to it in some cases. I'm still leaning towards no, but if we could be sure that cases are incurable it could budge me closer to the direction of yes.
I don't want to be like a Theist who would keep someone alive who has irreversible brain damage, but if depression is anything like my hallucinations, which I found effective treatment for after 20 years of not being helped at all, I wouldn't want someone to give up. I really don't know as my depression has always been mild and not that persistent.
Yes theoretically we all should be able to do what we want with our own bodies, including end our own lives. But it seems to me in many cases this would cause too much unjustified harm.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-dutch-...depression
In the Netherlands, I know, this is a thing. But lets not strawman people by saying this is the opinion of all Atheists or Progressives. Myself I do see some merit to it in some cases. I'm still leaning towards no, but if we could be sure that cases are incurable it could budge me closer to the direction of yes.
I don't want to be like a Theist who would keep someone alive who has irreversible brain damage, but if depression is anything like my hallucinations, which I found effective treatment for after 20 years of not being helped at all, I wouldn't want someone to give up. I really don't know as my depression has always been mild and not that persistent.
Yes theoretically we all should be able to do what we want with our own bodies, including end our own lives. But it seems to me in many cases this would cause too much unjustified harm.
