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#23321 I'm pro-assisted suicide too. Because I've been there. It's legal with those with terminal illness, yet society has judged that mental pain isn't comparable.
We're all going to die anyway. We might hurt some people - so what? We're selfish from wanting to die from our pain? Are you not selfish for guilting us into staying in pain, just because it might hurt you?
If they're going to do it anyway, would you rather see your loved one's body hanging, or knowing that, through assisted suicide, they passed peacefully in their sleep?
Permanent solution to a temporary problem. How are you so sure that person's problems are temporary?
As a society, it would probably benefit us to allow assisted suicide. Less money being spent on a person who can barely take care of himself, and more money spent on those who actually want to live. For those that had the strength to hold jobs, we'll have more jobs open. More scholarship money will be available to people who can actually do something with their lives. Better for the environment, with less people wasting resources. You can't reproduce when you're dead, so you prevent more parasites from coming into society. Some of these suicidal people might have violent tendencies, and in a fit of rage, murder or harm innocent people.
I speak from experience; that is, I'm mentally ill, and I'm pretty positive the world would be much better off without me. And having read my probably controversial post, you'll surely agree with me.