Perfectly stated!
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Very good article that said what is not stated often enough regarding suicide and assisted suicide.
As the underground cartoonist Gilbert Shelton really meant to say, hope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no hope.
Yes, really beautiful, especially now when smiling, fresh-faced politically correct zombies are trying with everything they have to reduce human existence to hive value.
Thank you for posting this, it's invaluable.
Just ask all those 200 year olds who hoped they would live that long.
While I agree with everything the article has to say, especially, “Taking one’s life is not an act of courage; it is an escape.”
When someone is terminally ill, our medical system still refuses to allow that person to be prescribed a sufficient quantity of drugs to alleviate the pain from their severe injury or metastatic cancer.
Doctors are terrified they will have their name placed on the list of “over subscribers”. Who cares if the dying person becomes addicted to morphine? Isn’t it better than using a Smith & Wesson .22 to dispense a lead pill into their cranium?
My biggest problem with Dignitas and other “assisted suicide” “providers” is that most of the people they are assisting, strictly speaking, don’t need assistance to kill themselves. If someone really, really wants to kill himself, there’s not much anybody else can do to stop him, and there are many ways to do it. In my opinion, most of the people who seek assisted suicide don’t have the stones to do the deed themselves, which suggests to me 1) that they harbor doubts as whether they really want to die and are perhaps being pressured, or 2) that they want the burden of causing their death to be on someone else’s shoulders.