The right to life should come with the right to die, amirite?

I mean - there's no consequences when you're dead so whether you're "allowed" to or not really is a moot point.

by Competitive-Dark 7 hours ago

Consequences for any family that know what was going on and didn't intervene. Police being called to a person committing suicide would attempt to intervene also.

by marjory79 7 hours ago

So what you are actually arguing isn't the right to die, it is that you think people should have the right to let other people die. Which is a completely different conversation.

by GoldBusiness2079 7 hours ago

Not quite. If this hypothetical was in place, police would not be able to intervene at a situation like this. Currently, they can.

by marjory79 6 hours ago

So the right to die should be sovereign. Isk man, there's something about a 7 year old playing with a gun, or an old lady accidentally not taking her meds that makes me feel this hypothetical is ridiculous. Other people intervene because they care, and because a lot of the time a person does not want to die. A lot of the time, a person may be depressed, psychotic or going through something. If people killed themselves on any whim, I think you'd find a fraught society.

by Grayce83 6 hours ago

I did say ethically there was a lot to be addressed. The 7 year old would never be an issue as a minor.

by marjory79 6 hours ago

That's because this is normally about depression. Which is a disease that makes you try or succeed in ending your own life. Now if you're talking about someone that's paralyzed or some other condition that's another matter. You can get better and heal from depression, you can't go back to running marathons after becoming tetraplegic.

by SpreadAccording 6 hours ago

there's plenty more to life than running marathons

by Tight-Coyote5245 6 hours ago

A moo point?

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

A cows opinion.

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

It's illegal to attempt suicide.

by Infamous_Childhood38 4 hours ago

In some parts of the country, that's kind of allowed. My dad spent all of 2024 dealing with an aortic dissection and then following that up with a nasty and vicious cancer diagnosis. When the doctors told him he was terminal, he opted into Maine's ‘Death With Dignity' program. It was insanely hard on all of us to essentially watch him take his own life (and still is), but I take solace in the fact that he was able to go on his own terms, and not have to watch him deteriorate slowly for months.

by soledad50 4 hours ago

I know what you went through was hard, but take from somebody who cared for his dad going through hospice last year, that was no easier. I'm still haunted by the responsibilities that were dumped on me for that...

by Anonymous 4 hours ago

Yeah there's truly no ‘good' or ‘right' way to navigate any of that. It's awful any way it comes. I'm sorry for your loss. ❤️

by soledad50 4 hours ago

Thanks, and I'm truly sorry for your loss also. You're right there is no good way to get through something like this.

by Anonymous 4 hours ago

What country?

by stoltenberglitz 3 hours ago

Maine in the USA

by marjory79 3 hours ago

People do have the right to die. It's pretty much the only thing anyone is required to do ever when it comes right down to it.

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

I used to work with a grumpy old dude who always countered any whining about having to do something with "the only thing you have to do is die. Everything else is a choice." And he's right.

by IndividualFair2797 2 hours ago

But it's not exactly easy to achieve this without traumatizing someone else. Legal assisted dying would be nice.

by stoltenberglitz 2 hours ago

What a can of worms that would open. "Look Your Honor, the deceased contracted me to kill him."

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

Absolutely. My body my choice

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

Exactly. Religion is what constantly meddles in our body choices.

by PsychologicalTax4204 1 hour ago

Not quite. I mean suicide for any reason, terminal illness or not

by marjory79 1 hour ago

I mean... what's going to happen to them when they are dead? Straight to jail!

by Anonymous 1 hour ago

Hard agree

by PhotographNo4248 1 hour ago

people have the right to die. whether excercising that right is acceptable is a different story

by DryParsnip9414 53 minutes ago

1000% agree, why can we put down our pets because it's humane to end their suffering , but Grandpa has to be kept alive on machines - that's no quality of life for him . Life is for living, not laying in a bed suffering

by Anonymous 36 minutes ago

Excellent rebuttal. We don't need this in public. I do mean in a private setting. And no, I also don't wanna spend your tax dollars to kill people

by marjory79 11 minutes ago