I'm with Will. A mistake that cannot be undone has to be prevented. Suicidal thoughts are more than always a chemical imbalance. It's an illness. Euthanasia is a question of do the means justify the ends. But a suicidal person is more than often sick and can be helped.
Dang' this forum moves fast ...
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Originally Posted by squeeeb
charlatan and will -
you both brought up depression/state of mind.
lets say someone is depressed, not in their right mind. let's say they want to off themselves. at that moment in time, for them, its really bad and suicide is the only way out, so why prevent them? we can say "they will change their mind tomorrow, they are confused" but at that moment, whatever they are feeling is the truth, and if they did off themselves, they wouldn't be around to regret it and say "oops, i overreacted there a bit."
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No squeeeb, at that point in time they simply cannot come to a conclusion that will summarize their entire lives' turmoil and hardship. It cannot be absorbed in a notice of a couple of days. In order for one to actually resolve something terribly taxing on their emotions they have to do it in a very long stretch of time. Hence the mistake that is suicide.