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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I doubt that insurance would cover assisted suicide in any form. That's a huge pandora's box.
I think this is a positive first step, but I would have to understand the frame work of what defines the ability to go through with this.
I don't think mental health issues should be something that should be on the list of reasons to die.
I would have to understand what extreme suffering involves, I would also have to understand how they can define the choice of the individual versus the choice of a family for example.
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Man, this comment shows just how far we still have to go before mental illnesses are treated with the same compassion we treat physical illnesses. If you've been suffering from crippling, soul-sucking, debilitating depression with no end in site for a few decades, I don't understand what you think gives you the right to say, "sorry, you have to hang in there for another 25 years."
I absolutely think mental illnesses should qualify for doctor-assisted suicide in the same way and under similar criteria as physical illnesses qualify.
It would be much nicer for somebody to go through a doctor and the closure process of assisted suicide (which may actually lead to positive help, if available!) than to go to their garage with a rope for their wife to find them hanging.