Should prisoners with full life sentences be given the chance to end their life rather than live out their days locked up?

No, it will defeat the purpose of punishment.

1. The Justice System Isn’t Meant to Facilitate Death.
The purpose of life imprisonment is to remove someone from society as a consequence of serious wrongdoing — not to offer a quicker exit.
2. Life Still Has Value — Even Behind Bars
Even in prison, people can grow, reflect, express remorse, or contribute to the world in small ways (mentoring, writing, art, etc.).
3. Risk of Coerced Decisions
Prisons can be dehumanizing, violent, and isolating. A desire to die might not come from a stable, autonomous place — it could come from untreated mental illness, trauma, or desperation.
4. Amounts to freedom instead of Punishment.
The concern is: Are they choosing death freely, or because prison has broken them.
5. Will set Wrong Trend.
Would people with less serious sentences start asking for the same?
6. Normalisation Vs. Mental Health Care.
There's fear of normalizing death as a solution to suffering instead of trying to improve prison conditions or offer better mental health care.
7. Undermines the Victims’ Sense of Justice.
Some victims’ families feel that a life sentence is about the person having to live with what they’ve done — not escape it. Allowing them to die could feel like letting them off easy, or denying closure.
8. Societal Message.
It sends a broader message that some lives just aren’t worth continuing — even if that person is already being held accountable. That can feed into dangerous ideas about who "deserves" life?
9. Potential for Wrongful Convictions.
If someone is later found innocent, but had already chosen assisted suicide while incarcerated… that’s irreversible. With the number of wrongful convictions we’ve seen exposed by DNA evidence, this risk is very real.
10. Encourage Heinous Crimes.
People who do Heinous crimes don't fear from death. Allowing death could be seen as escaping the sentence — especially for people convicted of heinous crimes.

As a pro-life Christian, I believe that all euthanasia is wrong so that would include those with live sentences. Rather, I would love to see them repent and come to salvation through Jesus and then lead other prisoners to Yeshua (yes I know I used both Greek and Hebrew names for Christ the Messiah).

In an ideal world, yes. The goal of the justice system is to deter certain behavior and prevent repetition if it happens anyway, preferably by rehabilitation or by keeping someone out of society if that's not possible. Punishment can be a means towards that, but isn't a goal in itself. Both lifetime in prison and death accomplish the separation, and a choice would be the most humane offer.

That said, I don't trust the system enough to rule out coercion, so in the world we live in, my answer would be no.

No, I think Prisoners should be given good food, good clothes, and a paradise of their own in the prison. Also, visited by their wive every day.

I don't believe in prisoners, I cannot take anybody's freedom away from someone. I don't do that.

Absolutely. Punishment with equal balance I am certainly not against and there are people that should never get out of prison. But truthfully a death penalty is actually Kinder in certain regards. Because a life sentences designed to break you and it also breaks the taxpayer having to pay the cost

I’m a believer in the death sentence where warranted and with a verifiable admission.

Who makes the choice seems to be a bit of a cop out.

I'm unsure about that, particularly when it might be an innocent person who was wrongly convicted and who might just be so depressed he looks at death as his only way out.

No, they need to live life which they didn't choose just like their victims
I think life sentence is easy as compared to what they do to their victims

NOPE!

Good question

This is a non problem.

It is not important.

We live in a world where most sexual predators never get convicted. And where money decides your innocence as well as the sentence in most crimes. It is about the legal defense you are capable of affording, not about evidence, not about whether or not you are guilty.

To then look away to an imaginary non- issue when we have such serious REAL problems is madness.

Priorities.

Yes, more choices

People can still have a life in prison.. some live better than some outside of it imo

No they need to suffer. Sit everyday and think about what landed them there.

No! Thats evil

Prisoners should have to work their entire stay. Think about it. Free meals, room and board, and medical care. Put them to work at the very least

I don't see why not. I don't really care about punishment as much as just preventing them from offering again. It's not like they are actually paying any restitution or their sentence corrects any wrong somehow. If they want to end it, let them. Less resources to keep them from harming.

Did they give their victims an option? No

No, they shouldn't get to determine their own end... they should wonder every day if today is their last.

No.

Deep Monsters yes

[@sw-question] 🤔no they should not if you commit the crime you do the time there is no get out clause available

The first duty of government is public safety, but saving taxpayer money comes a close second, so...

No. That’s not the sentence. You have to live to be punished.

They got sheets dont they

Overcrowding ship them to other countries.

They should have to pay for their incarceration.

Oh sure! It would be a great way to reduce the prison living expenses that are paid for by the tax payers. I wonder how much it costs the tax payers to keep a prisoner alive for a full life sentence?

Yes. Not to mention the fact that it would save taxpayers a shit tton of money.

No.

NO.