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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Don't it always seem to go... that you don't know what you got 'til its gone.
Suicide obeys the law of conservation, it is just a transfer of pain... from one person to many. Pain cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes forms.
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The government and religion have no right to dictate to us how we need to die. If I am terminal and everyday is more painful then the last and I can't function the way I want to then I would wish to die on MY terms. Why would I want my loved ones and people who care about me, to have their last memory of me as a painfilled, weakened dying person?
I wouldn't. In fact I would probably have a party with my closest friends and people I loved the most, get drunk, enjoy myself to the best of my ability and then when I go to bed, down a handle full of Oxys, dose out on whatever. That way, they remember me as I wanted to be remembered and they can be at peace and not have to mourn me. Whereas, everyday I live they are in pain and mourning me because of the pain I go through.
And I would understand a loved one doing the same. To me, suicide/assisted death for terminal cases is not a selfish act, it is natural. The only reason we keep people alive in terminal cases is for the medical $$$$$$$.
In nature, or even for those of you who have dogs and cats, you see animals that will starve themselves, kind of pull away become solitary and wanting to be left alone.... it's because they are dying. They know it and accept it. It's instinct to leave loved ones with memories of your strengths and accomplishments than your weaknesses and having had to watch you die.
I am not saying loved ones have to do this, I understand the love for life that makes you hold on till that last second also.
It's just none of government or religions business. Nowhere in my contract of life with my God/Goddess does it state I need to judge others and force them to live longer than they wish to. I don't think anyone else was given that job in their contract either.