[Serious] Euthanasia for Mental Illness

[Aegon]

This is a fucking awful idea. Increases in depression and anxiety are not random and it's far too step to say that it's purely a factor of "overcoming mental health stigma." The increases in depression and anxiety specifically are a result of an environment that promotes those personality disorders (individualistic and isolating way of life, certain jobs, social media and internet usage, etc). Many other personality disorders can be traced to environmental reasons as well, like pollution. The government is going to posture a way of life that causes personality disorders, then tell those people that they can kill themselves if they want out? Horrid.

At the end of the day, anyone can kill themselves if they really want to, including those with depression. Why make it so easy for a population that could feel entirely different about their situation a year later? When I was 18 I wanted to end of my life so badly, but there was no real easy way for me to do it, so it never happened; a decade later, I'm quite pleased to be alive. This is why suicides are so much more likely if there is a gun in the household.