Should suicide become legal as a human right
The question is simple should suicide be legal?
Suicide is currently illegal. This seems very silly because how can the court of law convict a dead person!? What are they going to do put a dead person in for life? In that case then they would already have served their time then wouldn’t they have.
If someone wants to claim their own life for good reasons who are you to stand in their way? It is a human right for people to make their own decisions. It is your own life and when you bought it you should be guaranteed your money back at any point of time. In good reason.
What if you were terminally ill and are in physical or emotional pain that will ruin the rest of your life and the only way out is to claim your own life. Then what happens is someone steps in and prevents you from this and you are forced to live in pain for the rest of your life which could well be another 20 years! Once I was on a bike ride with family and friends and we found a hawk with a broken wing. The only thing that we had to do was make one phone call. One phone call was all it took and some specialists advised that we kill the bird. If the bird had not been killed then the last weeks of its life would have been in great pain as it would have starved to death because it was unable to catch food. There are worse things than death. Death is inevitable which if you live under a rock means that death is unavoidable and that everyone will have to die one day, its about what death we choose and when we’re how or why we choose it. Having you read this is going to be the most important thing that you do today. Your view and opinion will change how you or someone else could finish the rest of their life. I’m sure that anyone that you talk to will agree that they would like to choose how they would like to die whether it be suicide or death in the loving hands of your family and friends. You wouldn’t want another person you don’t even know or some illnesses decide this for you would you?! If someone is keeping you alive when you wish not to be then this is a form of torture. That is what should be illegal.
Back in the 19th century if you were a sailor then you were not taught how to swim. The sailors believed that if the ship went down then there is no way that you are going to survive and that is the truth. Swimming will only prolong your death and in that period of lets say 20 minutes your going to wear down and suffer a slow and painful death. It would be agony just trying to stay afloat. And then you’ll die. I believe that this story is a much relevant point towards my topic. Claiming death should be legal and anyone who says otherwise is blind to the truth. Now we come back to the big question. Should suicide be legal? It is currently illegal.
yes it should become legalised
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no it should stay illegal
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I believe assisted suicide due to illness should be made legal but not otherwise. There's a saying that goes 'suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem'...but not so when illness strikes. I think it's a tough decision no matter what the circumstances but I also believe it should, at the very least, be legalized so that one may avail themselves of such a service when it becomes necessary or desired due to incurable illness. Side: yes it should become legalised
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The problems that cause suicide are not necessarily temporary. As a person with BPD, I may have thus far touched upon the problems that would cause suicide, and some people experience what I've experienced much more intensely, to the point where drugs and therapy don't help. Psychiatrists who treat, for example, bipolar patients often speak in terms of how long they can help their patients and how long they can save their lives. It's truly terrifying. Side: yes it should become legalised
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Yes, I know BYM. My daughter has been diagnosed with BPD and suicide is not a thought that is foreign to her. I know two other people with BPD and one of them gave me that line about a temporary problem. She's doing fine though and her meds are finally regulated. That's what my daughter is waiting for every day. That the 'cocktail' becomes the right one and she needn't suffer anymore. Side: yes it should become legalised
From the moment we are born we chose wether we agree with our mothers to brest feed or fight over the bottle. We decide when we want ot start talking, eating etc. As we become older we decided what to wear, become. We should decide if we want to live or die, our lives belong to us. I know form personal experience with my uncle having cancer that for at least 2 months his body was being beaten he could hardly swollow or smile, he so wished that he could take drug to put him to sleep. Instead of sufuring and not scaring hies family. Side: yes it should become legalised
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Yes! Everyone has the right to death as much as they have the right to life. This includes the right to a dignified death, rather than that produced by desperately unhappy people trying to end their own lives. There should be a wait on the act, and therapy should be required for those without severe medical problems. However, everyone should have access. Side: yes it should become legalised
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No U.S. state still has criminal laws against suicide on the books, and no state has ever enforced a criminal penalty against a person who attempted suicide. Hundreds of years ago in England, yes; in the U.S., no. However, because we inherited a good deal of the English common law when the country was founded, some states still recognise suicide as a common-law crime, which in practice has had the sole effect of complicating lawsuits between the family of the deceased and the caregiver or hospital. Again, no U.S. state has ever attempted to prosecute a person who attempts suicide under the common law. Much more frequent today are laws that empower or require a medical provider to commit a person into psychiatric care if that person is, in the judgment of the doctor, an imminent suicide risk. And that's not a bad thing, in my opinion -- in theory, at least, those are laws designed to help ensure that a suicidally depressed or mentally ill person gets some psychiatric assistance. I would not go so far as to establish a blanket right to suicide as a human right, because to do so could negate a number of laws designed to provide psychiatric help to suicidal people. I also think that a blanket "right to suicide" would undermine, more generally, the principle of valuing life. Finally, I think it would allow for some serious tragedies and misuses. I would not want a 19-year-old college student to have a "right" to blow her brains out all over the quad because she failed an exam. I would want her to calm down and get a tutor. Likewise, if the person suffered from a serious disorder like schizophrenia or BPD, I would want them to have better access to help rather than a right to off themselves. Nor would I want a lovesick stalker to have a "right" to camp out on the sidewalk across the street from the object of his affections and hack away at his wrists in order to traumatize and manipulate that person. I would want somebody to stop him and haul him away. However, I would support an assisted suicide exception for terminally ill patients who are suffering and have no hope of recovery. In these cases I think that issues of personal autonomy, dignity, and alleviating suffering carry much stronger weight. These are not patients who could be "helped" in any meaningful way, and forcing further suffering upon them seems very cruel. However, I think there need to be safeguards to ensure that the dying person is mentally competent and is making a free choice about ending his or her life, because the sick and dying are also uniquely vulnerable. So again, I would not want to establish a blanket "right" to suicide here because it increases the risk to an already-vulnerable group of people. I would support more narrowly-drawn assisted suicide laws such as those of Oregon and Washington, as they include oversight and reporting provisions, and strive to place the decisionmaking power in the hands of the terminal patient while still providing for medical supervision. Side: no it should stay illegal
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