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In fact, many may persuade themselves that they are dying, and seek out suicide providers. And if a simple death pill is devised so that they may painlessly end their lives, there is a good chance that many will opt for it.
Mental illness can be treated. We don't need to euthanise them or allow others to do so.
The DEA can’t stop or even significantly reduce illegal drugs coming into the US, so how can they possibly stop such a theoretical suicide pill?
While mental illness can be treated, it can only be done if it is both diagnosed, and the treatment is given. In this case, the woman had first professed suicidal thoughts when she was a child. She had been in mental institutions, and was released.
Her condition was half managed, yet degenerate. She sought out and found people who would kill her. How much easier would it have been for her to obtain a mere pill, if one like that existed?
I’m not saying it is either good or right or desirable, but is it even possible to stop such a thing?
I have known young people who seem to have a “suicide function” in their brains. Their lives are a long list of self destructive behaviors that are just amazing, and yet while they might contemplate it, they have never *directly* tried to kill themselves, nothing we would call a suicide attempt. But it is plainly obvious that they create whatever circumstances are needed to put themselves as lethal risk.
Not just bad judgment, but bizarre judgment, like jumping into the bear cage at the zoo, yet without any particular conscious reason for having done so.
Clearly this is mental illness, but otherwise they are fully functional, and do not even express crazy thoughts. How do you even diagnose that, much less treat it? Much of it could even be put down to “bad luck.”
I absolutely agree that euthanasia is just a euphemism for homicide. But if someone is bound and determined to kill themselves, I am perplexed at how they can be stopped, or even intervened with ahead of time to adjust their minds so they don’t want to kill themselves. In most cases, it is not obvious at all, even to their close family members.