[chimera]

I don't know, this whole "assisted" suicide thing seems kind of fishy to me. If you really want to commit suicide, just do it. I mean, there are plenty of tall buildings around, right? Just go up 20 to 30 floors, find an opening, and step out smartly. Same with bridges and towers. Not ambulatory? Get a hold of a shotgun or 38. Can't manipulate a gun? Take a boat out on the ocean and slip over the side. No need for "assistance".

Sorry if that sounds cold, but I wonder sometimes about the whole motivation for this "assisted" suicide business. I'd prefer compassionate end-of-life care over suicide. But having someone else "help you" seems, well, kind of cowardly, to be honest.

[euclid216]

The most painless suicide is Helium. Put a blanket over your head, breathe it in, lose consciousness, it’s over.

[Grunthor]

Honestly unless someone was a quadrapelegic, they have no need of being assisted in the taking of their own life.

[pnh102]

Sorry if that sounds cold, but I wonder sometimes about the whole motivation for this "assisted" suicide business.

I have moral objections to someone choosing to take his own life but at the end of the day it should not be something in which the government meddles. Ending your life should be a strictly personal matter as far as government is concerned.

I agree with you that "assisted" "suicide" is a crock. It is just murder under the guise of medicine. I think the whole point of the "assisted" "suicide" movement is to mainstream the idea that people can and should be killed off because they are too much of a burden to others. In every place where this idea has been mainstreamed, it always starts out as a "humane" gesture to "help" those who are terminally ill. It then goes from being a choice on the part of the sick person to being an obligation or a duty. It always devolves into something sick and ghoulish.

[hedgetrimmer]

Assisted suicide is designed to destroy medical ethics for physicians— first do no harm.

[no-s]

Just go up 20 to 30 floors, find an opening, and step out smartly.

Jeez, have a heart on the people who have to deal with the subsequent mess, really...

[Sloth]

I mean, there are plenty of tall buildings around, right? Just go up 20 to 30 floors, find an opening, and step out smartly. Same with bridges and towers. Not ambulatory? Get a hold of a shotgun or 38. Can't manipulate a gun? Take a boat out on the ocean and slip over the side. No need for "assistance".

Hopping out of a boat, maybe, although drowning is supposed to be pretty awful. The others are really inconsiderate, though, as somebody has to clean up that mess. Much better to asphyxiate or something.