Defend the right to suicide decently

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https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/2 ... o-suicide/

people are worth more than that

A lethal cyanide dose? Are you kidding?

Symptoms of cyanide poisoning include headache, dizziness, fast heart rate, shortness of breath, and vomiting, followed by seizures, slow heart rate, low blood pressure, loss of consciousness, and cardiac arrest. This may last for several minutes, and if a person survives, there may be long-term neurological problems.

Simultaneous vomiting and seizures that go on for several minutes of pain and slow suffocation before loss of consciousness isn't very "clean and painless".

Actually, there is no "clean" method of suicide. People don't just fall asleep and keep falling; most of those who survive describe being in a state of panic as they slowly suffocate, and descriptions of the bladder and bowels letting loose soon after death still means that someone has to deal with the mess.

People have the right to their own lives and to make their own decisions, but this is kind of depressing. We should be petitioning more funding to places like Samaritans and other suicide hotlines, not just letting people kill themselves. That seems like we're giving up on suicidal individuals which I wholly don't agree with.

Destruction of the physical-body does not remove the «negative-emotions» from the spirit-soul which WILL still be felt even after physical-death; don't tell me that you've never experienced what humans term as «dreams» and could literally feel the so-called «physical/emotional» sensations, despite the fact that nothing was actually happening to your physical-body back here in the so-called real-world of this earth-life.

Better to address the psychological-problems of the ones who endure mental-suffering than to promote ways to harm the body which could result in permanent life-long hospitalisation. The only time it is permissible to aid in another's passage into «passing on» is when they've already expired their life-span and are already of such declining health and cannot carry out even ordinary basic every day life-functions and are with no possibility of reversal into a healthy physical-body (such as turning into a vegetable-state). I also recommend reading The Messiah's writings on euthanasia.

^^^think that if I you give people the right to suicide, then there are also interesting indirect consequences:

- you would really have to create a world where people want to live and you would really care for others. Indeed too many suicides would cause instability and your attitude would have an impact on other's choice to suicide or not. The right to suicide could then indirectly change the world from the creation of fake happiness and illusions to the care for what people really need. Values would switch from the perfume and the superb car to real care for basic needs (food, roof, health, love, listening, feeling of importance, care, people interaction, freedom of thought and expression, other real human values)

- when the mental help or health care is inefficient, it would simply prove out to be inefficient and there is nothing bad at it. The inefficiency may be due to the patient, due to the Psy, due to not enough advanced knowledge, due to the world or life conditions,... just as for incurable illnesses.

Also, in any case death always happens at the end of life, you would not "choose to die", you would choose the time.

Each person should be allowed to decide how they see their own life and this view should be respected.

I respect the way you see your own life.

Well, the human population does need some trimming...

That's something that I won't be defending. I'd rather defend the right to all human life.

It would be misused in time; the road to Hell can be paved with good intentions and unintended consequences. I understand the people who support euthanasia and where they are coming from, though I think they are blinded to where it would lead. The dangers are too great for people whom society deems "lesser than".

Heaven knows there have been times in my long life when overwhelming situations nearly drove me to the edge of total despair, however it was a tunnel with eventual new light at the end.

Death isn't the answer. We are worth more than that, even if the world seems a very hostile place at times.

There is a desperate need for suicide support services expressly tailored to AS people, providing understanding support in ways that acknowledge the AS difficulty with services tailored to neurotypicals and for neurotypicals. The lack of appropriate support services for AS people is a disgrace, and the naivete of those who think one size fits all is dangerous for AS people in the clutches of suicidal despair. We are worth better than that.

I would want the suicide option if I am terminal with no known way of avoiding an exceedingly painful and or miserable death. A lot of times it is other humans intervening and preventing what mother nature wants to do.

I do think most Autistic suicide ideation is preventable and treatable. Internalized ableism is a very large factor in my opinion.

As I have mentioned before the physician-assisted suicide laws for autistics in places like Holland is consumer eugenics.