Introspection On Suicide

Right after recording, I spent a few minutes looking up some additional info on this. Turns out there's not much talk taking place regarding assisted suicide, as least not according google's crooked search engine.

You know it's bad when this kind of archaic garbage pops up as one of the top results for my region, which is supposed to be a progressive region last I checked:
http://www.epc.bc.ca/

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• antibsman
• assisted
• suicide
• euthanasia
• legal
• obstacles

[boobootoob]

Why the hell do I have to sub every time I come here? I can't imagine you'd be unsubbing me lol.

[AntiBullshitMan]

@boobootoob

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I don't get it. You were subbed before you came here. Then again it's past 1 am and I'm still up, so maybe it's my brain.

[boobootoob]

@AntiBullshitMan you tube glitch. It told me I was not subbed. lol.

[AntiBullshitMan]

@DiwataMan

The vid I uploaded yesterday starts out with me pointing out the barriers. Even the title of the video has ''legit barriers'' in it. I don't see how you missed that video but wound up commenting on this old one, on the same day. Maybe you already saw the new one. Maybe you just need to re-watch the first few minutes of it.

Again: I oppose having any sort of law force every last ''Kevorkian'' to assist with suicides in the cases where the doc believes that treatment should come 1st.

[DiwataMan]

@AntiBullshitMan Maybe I'm not understanding your position. You wish to have legal system in place where anyone above the age of 18 can go into a facility and be killed. That is the general base of your position, yes?

[AntiBullshitMan]

There's no contradiction. In the post you replied to, I was pointing out that a diagnostician should be allowed to say no on the 1st visit without legal ramifications coming their way, as there are enough Kevorkians who wouldn't feel the need to toe the arbitrary line.

In the vid I argued that depressed people shouldn't be forced to undergo extensive (or any, but I'll take what I can get) evaluation. I always qualify these by pointing out the crucial difference between depression & delusion.

[DiwataMan]

@AntiBullshitMan Once you begin to justify why one should be denied the right to die i.e. obligations, trivialities, etc, then you have to consider the other reasons which you seem to be rather dismissive of. You seem to be contradicting yourself in that regard when in the video you say the individual knows best and the evaluators don't but here you say "undergoes extended counseling".

[DerivedEnergy]

@lunaticreanimator Oh how remiss of them. They're not professional experts skilled in the art of taking people's lives, including their own. They'll get better at it with time. Leave it with them. They'll get the hang of it eventually.

[AntiBullshitMan]

"you have the legal right to purchase a firearm. That seems pretty failproof to me"

It's not. People have survived suicide attempts by way of guns. When I said suicides go wrong, a gunshot failing to get the job done is what I had in mind.

Just quit trying to find a rationalization to deny people the right to have the respect & dignity of dying through a legal process. If you have an unshakable bigoted view of suicidal people, fine, just don't allow that bigotry to impact the way you vote.

[AntiBullshitMan]

"something > nothing"

Quite the contrary. Something = suffering. Nothing = net. Any perception of pleasure you may glean in the "something" is only an elimination of deprivation imposed onto you by your DNA (dumb forces) for the sole purpose of dead-end survival & reproduction. And since there is no need for the need, nothing > something.

"Do It Yourself Suicide Kit For Dummies"

You're mocking people who suffer to the point where they no longer wish to live. I wish their situation on to you.