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Well if it was just for your adverage depressed-Joe most of the idiotic teenage population would be gone. "Oh, my boyfriend/girlfriend dumped me, I thought we were going to get married, have children, and grow old together"

As far as assisted suicide goes. I think that if they can provide adaquate proof that this person wanted to die, then they shouldn't go to jail. They didn't really murder that person, because that person wanted to die. Most of the time assisted sucides are from people who know they'll chicken out or would rather a loved on did it.

Now as far as suicide goes assisted or other wise. It's just stupid. Almost no one has a life that bad to kill themselves over. Most of the time it is just people being over dramatic attension whores who have no real problems. I don't consider a failed relationship a real problem, wether or not they were married. I don't consider someone cheating on you a real problem. A real problem is something that actually changes your outlook on life and everything because of that experience. Relationship related problems aren't real problems because they don't change anything. You cry for a day (or longer for some idiots) and get over it. You go ahead and get another boy/girl friend. Now an experience that makes you not get another boy/girl friend is a real experience.

Also, seeing as how bi-polar disease and depression (the medical depression) are managable and treated they aren't an excuse for suicide.

Perhaps assisted suicide could be for those over a certain age, or have a disease that makes life difficult, or unbearable.

A part of society makes little sense to me. We research and spend much money to help people live longer lives, yet many of the older population would wish to die. If I was hopelessly dying of cancer, or another disease, too fragile or old for treatment, I would prefer to die painlessly and peacefully, by assisted suicide.

yes they should have the choise....think...they're going to die anyway, they're proably in alot of pain, why not just end it all quickly..stop their suffering. GO DOCTER KAVORKIAN

I can imagine if your in serious physical pain, and it's not curable, then someone could give you an injection or something, but not if your depressed.
Lot's of people are depressed and if they all went and killed themselves, we'd have quite a drop in population. Depression can be dealed with, there are even medicines for it. But once your dead, your dead. There's no cure. There's no way to bring you back to life. You'll never see your family again. It's over for you.

Suicide it a weaklings way out, just suck it up and deal with it, life sucks so deal with it.

She lay down on the grass,
Looking up at the sky,
thinking, it’s all she can do.
If she disappeared she would not be missed.
She will be gone just like everyone else.

Getting up from the grass,
she walks on the sand,
looking outward towards the sea.
She walks into the water high up above her knees.

~~~♥~~~♥ Narc Lit ♥~~~♥~~~

Now I don't think assisted suicide is needed at all. Well, with the exclusion to pulling the plug on someone whom will suffer anyways.

As for depressed people, I think they should seek help and therapy, and that suicide should not be an option for them. I don't think it should be legalized, and I don't think that people who are suicidal, should get help. It would be the same thing as murder. And murder is never going to become legal.

My mother was telling me a little while ago, that my grandfather, who now has Alzheimer's, would have committed suicide, had he known the fate that has become his. He would never have wanted my grandmother to suffer from loneliness and depression due to his mental and physical health. My mom told me that if this same fate became her's that she would want us to pull the plug on her.

I think that these people should have the right of say in their future. I personally know that depression can be a rough mental disorder, but I truly believe that those people can get help and that suicide shouldn't be an option for them.

No matter how you see it, unless there is a will written with the words "If I am to ever become mentally of physically incapacitated, I want to be killed and not make those around me suffer", I think assisted suicide shouldn't be legalized. Some people might take advantage of that and in a way murder someone legally... Just think of that... Murder becoming legal... didn't we want murderers to rot in jail, or get the death penalty?

Cornetto1: It is murder. In the constitutional law, it is murder. Just because it's justified with giving the person peace, doesn't make it any less of murder. If you killed the person who killed the person you loved most, it is justified for you, but is it not murder? Is murder only classified as the killing of someone innocent or the actions of a sociopath?

As for your point on meds, there are other ways of treatment, perhaps your lack of enthusiasm for the psychiatric/psychological field, is making you doubt the effectiveness of medicine. Sure, some cases are so extreme that there is no help for them, but should they be helped to commit suicide? If they choose to take their own life, then they should do it by themselves. I agree that living in a mental institution would be worse fate, if they failed, but maybe they shouldn't fail. And if they do fail, then doesn't that mean that there is someone out there that cares about them? If God existed, then s/he/it would be the one who cares about them.

~~~♥~~~♥ Narc Lit ♥~~~♥~~~

The waves softly hit her legs.
She looks at the sunset and its yellow-red hues
she walks into the sea, farther and farther,
opening her arms towards the wave.
The water is high up to her hips.
The wave comes towards her.
She looks at the wave with her arms stretched out;
the water starts to rage, the wave hits her body hard.
Then the water calms down. The water recedes,
then darkness falls, and all goes dark.
The sun goes down and the day is done.

Well, in my opinion, suicuide is kind of careless for themselve, I mean...Assisted Suicuide should be legal, seeing that that's how they want it to be. In the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it states in the Legal Rights Section that People should not be treated to unusual treatment or torture, or something...anyways, that's a negative, and the positive for them is in the Fundamental Freedoms, stating that they have the freedom of thought, belief, and the so on...So yeah, I believe that assisted Suicuide should be legal, whether it is wrong or not.