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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Because with a illness in the terminal stage there's no hope for a cure. There's no reason for a person to suffer physical pain.
I don't see it that way for mental illnesses that can be managed or find the right balances of drugs.
I'm fine with assisted suicide for people with physical illnesses that will end in only one way and that's death. and the path to that death is suffering.
Mental illness doesn't work in the same way, a person can live and function and be treated with a mental illness.
When you have a person in a terminal stage of something like Cancer or some of the other terrible physical killers, the only thing that you can do is pretty much try to make the person comfortable and wait for death.
There's not a stage like that for depression.
I think one of the judgement categories for allowing a person to use assisted suicide is, is there no cure, is the only path death, is the patient going to suffer unnecessarily.
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Except you're assuming that some mental illness being treatable = all mental illness being treatable. There are cases of mental illness that are not treatable or, like I said, where the treatment provides relief of the mental illness at the expense of other areas to the point where it's a zero sum game. It also seems like you're treating physical pain with more reverence than mental pain, which is pretty unfair.