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What do people here think about assisted Suicide? I found several legal organizations who perform assisted suicides in Switzerland so it's apparently legal there. Sometimes I fantasize about saving up money to go to Switzerland and just ending it all in a peaceful "professional" way. I am too much of a wimp to ever cause physical harm to myself so I would need assistance.
I know people have such a bleak view on death. But it happens everyday. I personally think people should have a right to die. Life feels like a prison to me right now and this life should not feel like a prison sentence. But it does. I don't have kids. It would devastate my boyfriend and husband, but I feel like I am living for them right now, not me. Which view is more selfish? I don't know. Am I selfish for wanting to die and leaving them, or is it selfish to keep someone alive whose clearly miserable and sees no light at the end of the tunnel?
Of course I'm not "terminal" but I'd honestly rather have something physically wrong with me, if I could have a normal thinking brain. I would trade a leg or an arm to actually feel happy again and knowing I don't have a mental disease that keeps me miserable. The problem with our illness is on the outside, all can appear to be normal. But on the inside, there's extreme pain.
I don't want to live. I don't want to be here. I am forcing myself to get stronger and healthier for my boyfriend and family not for myself. If I were alone, I'd have already booked my flight to Switzerland. I heard they even take Bipolar people.
Sorry to be such a downer, but it's how I feel right now. So what are your thoughts on assisted suicide? Do you believe we have a right to die?
I know people have such a bleak view on death. But it happens everyday. I personally think people should have a right to die. Life feels like a prison to me right now and this life should not feel like a prison sentence. But it does. I don't have kids. It would devastate my boyfriend and husband, but I feel like I am living for them right now, not me. Which view is more selfish? I don't know. Am I selfish for wanting to die and leaving them, or is it selfish to keep someone alive whose clearly miserable and sees no light at the end of the tunnel?
Of course I'm not "terminal" but I'd honestly rather have something physically wrong with me, if I could have a normal thinking brain. I would trade a leg or an arm to actually feel happy again and knowing I don't have a mental disease that keeps me miserable. The problem with our illness is on the outside, all can appear to be normal. But on the inside, there's extreme pain.
I don't want to live. I don't want to be here. I am forcing myself to get stronger and healthier for my boyfriend and family not for myself. If I were alone, I'd have already booked my flight to Switzerland. I heard they even take Bipolar people.
Sorry to be such a downer, but it's how I feel right now. So what are your thoughts on assisted suicide? Do you believe we have a right to die?
I cannot believe they would consider bipolar people! I saw a Frontline documentary pn that, it was about a guy with ALS.
I think in very select few cases it should be allowed, but there really has to be some careful, careful screening.
Does your husband know about your boyfriend.. just wondering l. I'm single and can't find one man.. wondering if you have two or if I read that wrong..
I am terminal I will not die of what is killing me - but for the time being I am still here - my doctors know that when the breathing becomes too much my ass is gone
But instead, get some help, so you won't need to do it. If you have a family, you are going to cause irreparable harm. Someone posted here down to the 4th generation!! Are you prepared to do that?
I suffer terrible pain from Rheumatoid Arthritis, and I have other diseases like asthma, Sjogren's Syndrome. I fought my way back to health, but if all my meds fail, I have no intention of killing myself. I love my family too much to hurt them, no matter how much pain and how physically disabled I am.
One of the graduates of our Seminary got ALS. He was happy and full of joy till the day he died. He left his family a heritage. A heritage that God is in the midst of all trials and suffering.
Sorry to be so harsh, this is just wrong!
They have very strict guidelines and it doesnt seem that they would accept someone with a mental illness as a candidate.
be of sound judgement, and
possess a minimum level of physical mobility (sufficient to self-administer the drug).
further prerequisites mean that the person must have:
a disease which will lead to death (terminal illness), and/or
an unendurable incapacitating disability, and/or
unbearable and uncontrollable pain.
It wasnt that easy, it was heartbreaking to watch, and the guys poor wife and kids( his kids did not want to be there)
assisted suicide, suicide, any kind of death is traumatizing to those left behind...i think we have all known that pain in our lives..
at the same time, last year i would have jumped at the chance, but i was really sick and my brain was lying to me...