my thoughts on the issue of assisted suicide

Im gonna share my thoughts on assisted suicide.

I do think it should be legalised and available to select individuals on a case to case basis.

What i find difficult is determining between terminal illness and terminal mental health conditions. One causes incredible emotional and physical pain, and the other just psychological emotional pain. But both are extreme hell to live with on a daily basis.

So who determines whether someone has had enough of either and needs to finally be free from their demons.

 People should have a choice!

I know there is a fine line between what is classified as a long term terminal condition. But I would argue that some mental health conditions are terminal and do not improve even with medication, and therapy. That underlying emotional pain eats at you, that tear inside you just continues to rip your guts out.

When you have a hole that can never be filled., and an emptiness and hopelessness that just cant be explained.  Does this give you a right to decide to end it all?

I would like to think there is some flexibility with legalities surrounding assisted suicide.

When a animal is in pain, we don't like it to suffer, if theres nothing more than can be done to change the situation we kindly put the animal to sleep. Yes its a kindness. So why cant that be so in certain cases where the pain has been ongoing for many many years and they just need to be set free.

Who's deserving of being set free?
When is it considered murder?


I do believe that those who are terminally ill from cancer etc should be able to make the final decisions on where they want to call it quits.
After all when someone has been through every means necessary to try and recover but has not been able to, and has been given a time line and a date for death, there is no hope left, they are just trying to make themselves comfortable in the meantime before the due day arrives.

They should be able to die before their body breaks down and they enter a vegative state, especially since their dignity is being compromised, and a lot of sufferers do not wish their family and friends to have to cope with the effects of seeing the one they love breaking down.

My mother recently had to deal with the death of her father dying from leukaemia. She is still scarred from those last few hours spent with him. Once you see a loved one in such a state its very difficult to erase that picture from your mind.


My mother has not been successful in removing that image and other family and friends have similar mental pictures of their loved ones that they cannot erase. So back to my argument if someone is able to bail out earlier than expected how much kinder that is on the individual experiencing the illness, and the family and friends around them, left with positive memories. Maybe a meal out with them a special weekend of fun, and then they bail out of life.

I just wonder if that is the way to move forward. To accept the situation thats being faced and allow those individuals to make their own decisions about when they will face their fate of death.