Should Depressives Be Given A Option On Euthanasia?

[cronus]

Misery visits with nothing good to say about anything. Unlike me who finds even the end of the world amusing. Shouldn't the clinically chronically depressed be encouraged to visit a clinic specialising in extended getaways? It's the humane thing all round surely?

[Svartalf]

Heck no, depression is something you can beat, or even just wait out.

[pErvinalia]

Everyone should be able to opt out of life in a dignified way, with appropriate constraints.

[Animavore]

They already do have an option. So does everyone else. A pile of sleeping pills and a plastic bag over the head sellotaped tightly at the neck.

Euthanasia is for people who don't have the capability to kill themselves. Not for the able-bodied.

[JimC]

Everyone should be able to opt out of life in a dignified way, with appropriate constraints.

One man's "appropriate restraints" is another's intolerable reduction of personal liberty...

[Hermit]

Everyone should be able to opt out of life in a dignified way, with appropriate constraints.

One man's "appropriate restraints" is another's intolerable reduction of personal liberty...

STFU!!!11!1!! It's not as if we don't already have a vomitworthy amount of mentions of "Inalienable Rights".

If you don't stop, I'll report you to the EPA.

[cronus]

Without restraint my ideal would be suicide booths on every street corner where anyone over eighteen can exit in comfort with a warm glow from the heroin overdose and some pleasant multi-media experience. A nostalgia booth for the old with a choice of old B/W flicks etc. It's a humane way of overcoming the population issue. Maybe the most humane that is possible?

[rainbow]

Without restraint my ideal would be suicide booths on every street corner where anyone over eighteen can exit in comfort with a warm glow from the heroin overdose and some pleasant multi-media experience. A nostalgia booth for the old with a choice of old B/W flicks etc. It's a humane way of overcoming the population issue. Maybe the most humane that is possible?

Solyent Green.

[cronus]

Fact follows fiction albeit loosely. We might avoid soylent in our breakfast cereals by allowing suicide booths....ah, but climate change along with resource depletion means agricultural capacity is likely to contract and food will become scarce in the decades to come.

[rainbow]

My real concern would be that all the meds they take would ruin the flavour.

[cronus]

My real concern would be that all the meds they take would ruin the flavour.

Some careful mechanical processing should render the meat safe. The unsafe bits can be fed to cattle, cheer them up in their pens?

At present vast sums are spent, a lifetimes savings, on being in a care home. Many old people would rather the money go to relatives especially in the current economic climate, and suicide booths would save money, that could be forwarded to struggling young ones. Money cascading down the generations.

[rainbow]

My real concern would be that all the meds they take would ruin the flavour.

Some careful mechanical processing should render the meat safe. The unsafe bits can be fed to cattle, cheer them up in their pens?

Yes.

What could go wrong?

[pErvinalia]

"Soylent green". One day I'll get around to googling that so I can be in on the joke too.

[RESiNATE]

Speaking as someone who has and is chronically depressed, this is not a good idea.

In the darkest days of my existence, I thought long and hard about how to end the daily torment of waking up in a world I no longer wanted to be a part of, spending the day in a world a didn't want to be a part of, and going back to sleep in the sure knowledge that tomorrow would be even worse than the day just gone simply because I knew nothing would have changed and my anger and frustration only larger because I hadn't died in my sleep. So I know what it's like to want to just die and be done with it.

However, through all that time I never once yearned for a place that I could go to and sign a bit of paper that absolved anyone of responsibility so that I could do it there. I could do it anywhere, anytime, and any way I chose...and still can.

Depression is a bitch. Period.
It is something that often comes unbidden, can be started by the most inconsequential thing, and in many cases is a cumulative problem that some people find very difficult to deal with. But, to have a place that one can go and simply check out of it all is too simplistic.

Most depressives want to overcome it - this is why we are depressed. Because the things that make us depressed can be overcome...we just don't know how to do it.

Better to have a place where we can send the people that cause depression and have them dispatched. That way, the people who have become depressed (in most cases, people who are of higher than average intellect) can begin to rebuild their lives in a world where idiots can be erased from the equation.

:-D

Res...

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

"Soylent green". One day I'll get around to googling that so I can be in on the joke too.

You've never seen Soylent Green?