Should suicide be normalized?

Everything is the same in the world, except you have the little option, if you like, to walk to a clinic and ask for a pill. A suicide pill. I think the world would be a better place if it was normalized, and one could easily go to a clinic and have a procedure completed to cease their life functions gently and painlessly, and if it weren't demonized or criminalized and anyone could opt out of life at any point.

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totalrandoman · 100+, M

Most of you do not know how much pain you will be in when you die. Wouldn't you want the option to plan ahead for your death if say, you are going to die, are in a lot of pain, and can't afford pain medication for weeks or months, waiting tentatively to die. If suicide were normalized it certainly wouldn't be a problem.

AcidBurn

That's different than letting just anyone walk into an office for a suicide pill. And such things do already happen in end of life situations. Some states already have right to die laws.

totalrandoman · 100+, M

Well okay, I went for a little bit of an extreme example, I would like to live in a world where the topic of death is normalized, where it isn't a big deal anymore. Where we accept it as a normal topic without getting all emotional over it every time.

AcidBurn

You have to be pretty heartless to not have any emotions when someone ends their existence.

totalrandoman · 100+, M

Millions of people die every day, or maybe thousands... God would have to be pretty heartless. We live in a cruel world. We become emotional about things, and emotions cloud our judgements. If there were less tension over death we would be less emotional over it and able to think about death more clearly. It already is a normal part of life. No sense getting emotional over it. It just makes it more painful.

AcidBurn

"We become emotional about things, and emotions cloud our judgements." You just proved exactly why suicide should not be taken lightly and offered as an easy option. Since you believe in god, what is god's stance on suicide?

totalrandoman · 100+, M

If there is a god, an intelligent overseer of life on Earth, then it fixes things so that no one can escape the pain of old age or death. I'd say god doesn't give a damn what you do so long as you die in the end.