There's a guy in our town with no arms or legs. Gets around on a skateboard. Shot himself in the woods during winter but was found and given medical attention. But not before he lost all 4 limbs to frostbite. I've never spoken to him. Seems to have a pretty positive disposition given his circumstances.

Also have a bro whose gf slit her wrists in the tub. She survived. Hella trauma all around. Still on the waiting list for surgery to fix her hands years later.

Had a total karen of a neighbour once...Hard not to be callous cuz she was genuinely unpleasant to interact with but found out from my roommate that several years back she came home and found her son had hung himself in the closet at like 17. Who knows if she was nicer back then but clearly permafucked her mentally. She didn't even move out. She kept living there.

Dying peacefully via MAID is certainly less traumatic to everyone else.

If our gun laws here were like those in the states, I truly would not be here right now.

The same would be of MAID if it was supplied for those with mental illnesses.

It is insane to me that people are just casually blowing this off as if it means nothing. You have no room to regret a permanent decision, and no hope to hold out on.

If my attempts were successful I would have never found myself in this spot where yes, things are still rough, but I can at least say it's better. I'd have never predicted where things would have gone ten years ago when I was still depressed and feeling suicidal then, by giving people the option to do this, you rob them of the potential for a better life forever.

Obviously Conservative

Yeah because living in Alberta is immediately equal to being Conservative, can't live here and be otherwise because everyone knows we're a hivemind. Can't be a progressive and think that the mentally ill and disabled have a right to live with dignity, you have to think black and white and think they either deserve to live and wallow in the status quo, or should kill themselves. Weird how I'm being called a Conservative for being against the same thought process Conservatives have.

Control Freak

Don't fight me on the point of saying people with mental illnesses and disabilities should have the right to live with dignity. Tell a person living with a long term mental illness to "fuck off" because their opinion doesn't matter in a discussion about the right to live with dignity unless it's the "right" opinion, which weirdly is the same line of thinking as Conservatives who think the value of your life is either making profit for others, or of no value at all.

Genuinely what is your problem? I give my experience of having to view these conversations second-hand about what people truly think of people with conditions such as mine, and am immediately told to "fuck off".

Just goes to show a lot of people don't care nearly as much as they claim to and that people like us are seen as disposable and lesser than, and instead of fighting that point, you decide to propagate it and insult me without due reason.

Agreed

"Let's not change the system as it stands, lets just get rid of minorities and people facing minority issues, and the system fixes itself!"

Idk man, that sounds eerily similar to fascism. Just because it's sugar-coated as being an "option" (which benefits them because they can no longer be held accountable for their poor decisions) doesn't make it any better.

Cool. So the "right" thing for people like me with mental illnesses to do is to kill ourselves, or have the "right" to decide to do it when we're of unsound mind.

Do tell me how this isn't basically eugenics?