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. 😭

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AngelUnforgiven · 51-55, F

I cant even bring myself to think about this, because its from selfish reasons of not wanting to lose that person, rather than from the standpoint of why they want to do it or why they may be suffering. In my line of work i always hear the sick and elderly say that they want to die, about a month ago i had a client who was literally praying and begging to die on a Sunday night, i sat by her bedside with her saying please Lord i want to die please let me die! i went home Monday morning & woke up that evening to the news that she'd died. I was thankful that she died after i had already left because she had become a close friend and that one hit me harder than all the others.