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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm usually in support of the availability of euthanasia, although I generally felt this were best applied to those who are elderly, sick or generally in a level of untreatable despair that we can understand that euthanasia be the kinder option. Despite having been a survivor of trauma, I would question this decision as I know all too well that the.mind is not concrete, it doesn't remain unchanged throughout life and in a matter of months or years she may have held a very different perception of her life. This seems almost like a victim of the medication she was on. Young adults especially tend not to react well to certain antidepressants and can have violent thoughts or suicide ideation. Her decision should have first been assessed against a change of medication. Else, what can you do against a person's decision?

[–]jet199Instigatrix 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

If she's really decided to kill herself she would have just done it herself.

With this system she gets to have a grand performance and validation from all the people going through it with her.

Likely if this law hadn't been in place she would never have gone through with it.

Women attempt suicide more than men but kill themselves less because are far less successful. This is due to their attempts being usually cries for help rather than actually wanting death.

This set up will turn hundreds of people's need for attention (or any basic acknowledgment they are alive, suicide is most common in the socially isolated) into their deaths.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And the reporting of this news story will have the same effect.

Suicide is socially contagious. We like to think we are all logical individuals who make our own decisions but we aren't.