(June 4, 2018 at 4:15 pm)Fireball Wrote:(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?
Did you start this thread as a result of a conversation with Hammy?
No, I started it because I was thinking about a thread from like a year ago where people were talking about how assisted suicide should be accessible to anyone.
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