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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[–] 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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  • [–] 3 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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