As the song goes in West Side Story, I’m depraved because I’m deprived. I’m sorry for your losses, Roadie, but that’s not in the least what I’m talking about here. Do there need to be govt restrictions on what you can do with your own life (e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction) or your own death—wait in pain, physically or mentally, or take matters into your own hands. As I’ve said above, every “suicide” is immense trauma for those who loved you. This is particularly true for teenagers whose parents will forever wonder how they could have done things differently. Or wives and husbands who will always feel they weren’t enough, kids who will think they weren’t loved to the max. Suicide affects the potential life-contributions of its victim as well. But…pain. Many would say, even the Godly, that this life is meant to be a web of pain, it’s a test. I certainly call bull<deleted> on that. There really are some people who break rather than bend. Would you not want to be with your parents when they died, lovingly, by their own choice, from old age or sickness? I’m a vegetarian so dead bodies don’t smell like meat to me. I did a lot of emergency medicine—you don’t want to hear about it. I also enjoyed pathology more than anything. I learned more than just the means of death, I got to explore how that person lived. Yeah, the ones who drowned and weren’t found for weeks were a test. The crib deaths were also really hard. That’s life and death is a big part of it. I don’t think people should hide suicidal tendencies or their suicides. In many cases, there is a good chance therapy or even family and friend support might “save” them. But we all deserve a choice. I wish I knew a vet. Cyanide is a particularly painful and gruesome death. Is your sister content now and satisfied with her life? There is a website called Sanctioned Suicide where people talk about ‘catching the bus’. There is no euthanasia group that supports it. Too many young people who just don’t have the full picture yet. However, I don’t think even such a blatant site “encourages, radicalises, grooms” anyone to suicide., nor could it, nor could Kenneth Law. But it does make it a choice for people who are already thinking about it. I can’t imagine what incel men or misogyny or sex has to do with any of this no matter what Channel4 has to opine about it. I have not heard of those young women and certainly don’t think murder-suicide, usually by domestic violence, is a great way to be remembered by your family. Were Kenneth Law’s assisted suicides all Brits? I thought there were some Canadians and Americans. The 20-year olds are certainly of an age for their own decision-making. You mention “my book” about an “alleged suicide”. I actually did write a book on suicide from my translation from the Japanese of The Complete Book of Suicide. I envisioned it as a black, coffin-shaped volume. But I got into other projects, there was so much new information, that I never finished it. How do you know about it. This is the first time I’ve made it public.
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