How do you feel about physician-assisted suicide ?

It is legal where I live, with very specific guidelines; it has to be part of the person’s advance directive, but the person must be terminally ill and facing death within a relatively short amount of time.

Some people want to extend its reach to emotional or mental illnesses, like clinical depression. Occasionally I’ve seen people here express support for including such conditions.

I always want to ask them, "would you be okay if it were your child or a young person you care about who wanted a doctor to help them suicide due to depression ?"

Because I know that would break my heart and I would be trying to save my niece or my godchildren in that instance. 😭

SwampFlower · 31-35, F

I wish I had the option in my case.

I can see why it is so heavily regulated, too, though. So much of depression can be environmental. I’d rather see all efforts made to alleviate the persons suffering through proper support before that is an option. But something like that wouldn’t happen here.