Assisted dying

[PinkFinal]

If people are suffering long-term social isolation and severe depression (which many are nowadays) ideally they'd be helped , but they're not being helped, aside from tablets and if they're lucky , local mental health groups.
I really believe that modern life is so stressful , mentally demanding and frankly cruel that it's actually a fate worse than death for some and I don't know why those who are suffering should be expected to tolerate it.
We have hundreds dying on railway lines every year and it's an absolute tragedy for everybody concerned.
I believe that the always available option of voluntary-assisted euthanasia would perhaps make life easier - knowing that they wouldn't have to choose a violent method of exit that may not be successful and may leave them with terrible injuries.
I don't expect this to ever be allowed here cos I strongly suspect that many more than they might expect would try to exit.. And it would just look awful.

I personally am struggling and it might end with electro convulsive therapy.
I keep on going even though things are almost always bleak as fcuk.
As I'm autistic the world is a semi- nightmare anyway, mentally.

I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I agree with terminally ill people who are never getting better and are in constant pain having the opportunity to die with dignity on their own terms. As most people do I feel.

I just hope this isn't a slippery slope to a Canadian like system where you get stories like this. https://care.org.uk/news/2023/08/ca...-assisted-suicide-after-lack-of-hospital-beds

That is absolutely abhorrent. People with depression don't need to be offered suicide at a price instead of help.

That example sounds like misconduct by the person she spoke to rather than an actual policy.

Get it in all sorts of healthcare or therapeutic roles , people taking their personal views to work when it isn't warranted, e.g abortion counsellers with religious views offering to pray with the woman for the aborted foetus.

 

[SilverFox2]

They aren’t dead

Agreed, one wants to die but has their decision overturned, the other cannot choose to live so is allowed to die.
Just my opinion.

 

[mackenzie]

If people are suffering long-term social isolation and severe depression (which many are nowadays) ideally they'd be helped , but they're not being helped, aside from tablets and if they're lucky , local mental health groups.
I really believe that modern life is so stressful , mentally demanding and frankly cruel that it's actually a fate worse than death for some and I don't know why those who are suffering should be expected to tolerate it.
We have hundreds dying on railway lines every year and it's an absolute tragedy for everybody concerned.
I believe that the always available option of voluntary-assisted euthanasia would perhaps make life easier - knowing that they wouldn't have to choose a violent method of exit that may not be successful and may leave them with terrible injuries.
I don't expect this to ever be allowed here cos I strongly suspect that many more than they might expect would try to exit.. And it would just look awful.

I personally am struggling and it might end with electro convulsive therapy.
I keep on going even though things are almost always bleak as fcuk.
As I'm autistic the world is a semi- nightmare anyway, mentally.

I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

I hope you are OK and I wish you well.
You are a very valued poster on here and I hope you know that xx

 

[metalblue]

If people are suffering long-term social isolation and severe depression (which many are nowadays) ideally they'd be helped , but they're not being helped, aside from tablets and if they're lucky , local mental health groups.
I really believe that modern life is so stressful , mentally demanding and frankly cruel that it's actually a fate worse than death for some and I don't know why those who are suffering should be expected to tolerate it.
We have hundreds dying on railway lines every year and it's an absolute tragedy for everybody concerned.
I believe that the always available option of voluntary-assisted euthanasia would perhaps make life easier - knowing that they wouldn't have to choose a violent method of exit that may not be successful and may leave them with terrible injuries.
I don't expect this to ever be allowed here cos I strongly suspect that many more than they might expect would try to exit.. And it would just look awful.

I personally am struggling and it might end with electro convulsive therapy.
I keep on going even though things are almost always bleak as fcuk.
As I'm autistic the world is a semi- nightmare anyway, mentally.

I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

This absolutely shouldn’t be seen or used as an alternative “treatment” to allow the system to keep failing you and others mate.

Fuck that.

I really don’t know how to answer your post though mate. Take good care of yourself fella and many on here are always about for a chat.

 

[stonerblue]

This absolutely shouldn’t be seen or used as an alternative “treatment” to allow the system to keep failing you and others mate.

Fuck that.

I really don’t know how to answer your post though mate. Take good care of yourself fella and many on here are always about for a chat.

This 'treatment' utopia you think should exist doesn't. In the last ten years my wife has seen an MS nurse twice. She got her first appointment with a physio last month; 8am at Oldham hospital. She can't even get the right inhalers for asthma.
Yes, it would be great if she got tailored treatment, constant supervision, counselling, physio or even the path outside our house fixed so she could get out on her scooter but she doesn't.
In the real and brutal world many are left with the basics of pain relief and anti-depressants that turn them into emotional zombies.
Now imagine if all that help existed. It would not alter the one daunting fact that MS and other debilitating disease mean symptoms will only get worse.
Why shouldn't people be able to 'check out' whenever they want? I'd guess that in a lot of cases the patient would feel a lot better mentally if they had the means to without even resorting to it.