There was somebody posting these lyrics in other community as something that spoke to them:

You know, suicide isn’t painless,
When you leave everyone in pain.
NOFX - Doornails

Anybody has the right to have any lyrics - or any thing really - to mean whatever it needs to mean to them. But...

I lost a dear colleague and friend to suicide just a week ago and I am myself passively suicidal. Bullying people that contemplate ending their suffering into staying alive or tainting the names and acts of those that already did is just not the way to go.

Edit: this is not critique towards the person who commented those lyrics, but against that artist and society in general.

I just had to rant. Feel free to believe or react in any way that feels right to you.

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[–] 6 points 1 day ago* (5 children)

It's a travesty that assisted dying isn't already a thing everywhere. Imagine looking at an incurably sick person who is constantly in pain and/or in the process of losing everything that makes life worth living (motor skills, memory etc.) and forcing them to go on because "suicide bad".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Ugh in Canada we have an exclusion for people using assisted death (MAID) solely for mental health. They just recently extended that exclusion 'indefinitely'.

    I know it is more clear-cut with physical illness but people with incurable less visible disabilities should be allowed a dignified death as well.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 day ago

    This just reminded me of how much easier it could make things for loved ones too. Instead of, for instance, finding your loved one OD:d, hanged, cut or whatever horrifying method they used, they could possibly actually be prepared and have a proper goodbye.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I don't know about that... If we had assisted dying, capitalism would ruin it. They'd start pushing it hard on people, anyone deemed 'no longer productive'. There would be constant stories about dementia or mental illness patients given forms they didn't understand, signing their own death warrants without realizing what they were doing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Assisted dying has been legal in several European countries, e.g. in Netherlands and Belgium since 2002.

    You're not wrong though, there's definitely a risk in turbocapitalist or authoritarian countries like the USA.

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