Assisted suicide?

[The Magic Pudding]

I am all for assisted suicide, but I think the practicality of implementing it legally could be really tricky. You could try making it so only terminally ill people would be given the option, but who is to say someone that is doomed to live in immense pain that is not life threatening suffers any less? Besides, we're all going to die someday, so who are we to say that only a terminal illness is a reason to help someone commit suicide?

Lots of legal things are tricky but we make rules and if they aren't working right we adjust them. Other places pioneer these things and you can look to them to see how it is working.

I don't see why chronic pain shouldn't qualify you for a D pill.

Australia's Northern Territory, a vast sparsely populated area that doesn't have the status of a state introduced euthanasia laws, the federal government driven by christian @!$%%&@ had the laws struck out. We have to suffer at the end of our lives for the benefit of our souls, don't enjoy sex for your soul, waste your Sundays for your soul, be a baby factory for you soul. I can get just a little annoyed when people with minds focused on the next life impose rules on me.

Then you get into the issue of physical vs. mental pain. Many people with mental pain suffer just as much, and it isn't fair to say that a life of mental pain isn't as difficult to deal with as physical pain. Sure, much of mental pain can largely be managed, but it takes time and effort to do so. Who is to say someone should have to suffer through mental pain just because there is a chance to one day live a pain free life?

Well I assume they are mobile, there is always the bottle of bourbon and an outgoing tide option. If they want to spare their family take a fishing rod and bait and it's an accident.

I am all for assisted suicide in theory, but I feel legalizing it would bring on a whole host of issues that would be very difficult to work out.

So does taxing people but we still do it.

I feel that drawing a line on what is acceptable pain to opt out from and what is not would be nearly impossible.

Well why not just leave it to the people suffering the pain?