Legalize Suiside

Maybe save a life

As I covered in my article on Suiside

Suiside

I think we need to address the underlying problem rather than keeping these conversations in quiet. According to one website over 90% of suicides are Guns/Hanging/Poison. It’s interesting that this does not really account for so many other methods, jumping, intentional car crash, intentional dangerous situations, or even cutting. Today in my town a distraught woman was up on a roof, and it shut down many blocks. Would it not be more reasonable to legalize the whole process with some restrictions and tools.

Imagine if an adult could go to a clinic, declare that you wanted to end your own life, have a 24 hour hold, stay in a nice room, have a decent meal, talk to someone if you were so inclined, and if in 24 hours you still wanted to end your life you could have an IV put in by a nurse and take a fatal dose and just go to sleep. This seems a more reasonable way to end ones life. And the damage done to the rest of humanity would be dramatically reduced. No more finding your husband with a gun in his hand and a hole in his head, no more walking in to the garage and finding your wife hanging from the rafters, and no more shutting down a neighborhood because someone is standing on a building refusing to talk to anyone.

Bring the whole process into the light, make it all reasonable, and make as much attemept as possbiel to solve the underlying problems. And if a loved one does end their life, the clinic can send an actual councilor to the family to try to explain, and hopfully be of some benefit to those who are still alive. This whole idea of suicide being a sin is not helpful to anyone, it’s not a sin, its where we go when everything is just too much and we can no longer manage the energy to push forward.

The cost to goverment and society of back alley suicides is huge, both financial and energetic. We cannot erase those losses, though if we can manage to reduce both at the same time isnt that an option we need to look at?

(again in no way am I intimating that I am seriously contemplating ending my life, or that anyone should end theirs, rather that we all need to talk about these issues in an open way… my writing is just a starting point on that conversation)