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Jobcentre “so no luck with the job search then, have you considered death?”

I mean, it’s the Torygraph, but I don’t really see why anyone who’s “incurably suffering” shouldn’t have the free choice to end their own life.

They already do after all, anyone able bodied can jump off a bridge or in front of a train but that causes trauma to many other people in the clean up, so why not have a reasonable path forward for people who are “incurably suffering”.

Nobody else should have a say in what I do with my life, including ending it, so long as I don’t hurt anyone else.

That was quick, given what a point the proposer made of keeping it very narrowly focussed.

How long until ‘withdraw care from the elderly or disabled because killing them off is cheaper for Are NHS’ becomes a policy proposal?

Definitely need this as an option especially with the NHS failing

Slippery slope starting before it is even legalised.

Assisted suicide throws away a very important principle about the preservation of life, so this is inevitable.

This is already a thing in other countries. For example, have a read of this article about a woman in the Netherlands, who was granted the right to die because of her mental health: https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/16/dutch-woman-euthanasia-approval-grounds-of-mental-suffering

Though fair warning, it’s a pretty harrowing read.

In general with these things, I’m in favour of letting people decide for themselves. There absolutely needs to be a conversation about how we guarantee that nobody has been pressured into it though, with the obvious example of that being family members that pressure granny to have assisted dying rather than expensive hospice care that eats up all of the inheritance.

But reading that article was *genuinely* uncomfortable (which is the point, I suppose), and it’s hard not to wonder if there was another solution for people that aren’t terminal.