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[reimei_no_sora]

I swear I always seem to have amazing things that I want to talk about here, but I dream them up in the middle of the night, and I'm always too preoccupied with whatever to get my butt out of bed to come type. Not to mention I'd probably get yelled at for getting out of bed in the first place

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[arashi_soul]

Well, if somebody’s dying of an incurable disease, and the trip from diagnosis to conclusion is spent enduring unimaginable pain, I wouldn’t take issue with that person choosing to commit suicide. Life’s to be treasured after all, and ending yours with an indeterminate amount of physical and emotional agony is a pretty sour idea. However, I dislike the concept of a person committing suicide alone, that is, without help. Suicide attempts aren’t difficult things to muck up, and one gone awry can easily pile yet another health challenge onto an already burdened condition. Now, if a person considering suicide were able to consult with a doctor on the best approach to use, or about how to recruit medical aid in performing the act itself, the desired result would be almost guaranteed, and certainly the procedures a doctor could recommend (or implement) would be far less gruesome in effect or dreadful in aftermath than would a layman’s typical selections of shaving razors, improvised nooses, and semi-automatic pistols. If the assisted suicide were carried out in a hospital, the advantage would be two-fold, with the presence of on-hand medical staff and equipment, and with hospitals already possessing the resources to handle and transport the deceased. I imagine that more understanding friends and family would opt to be present at a previously scheduled and arranged suicide to give their loved one a smiling send-off. This would be a much gentler introduction to the grieving period of loss compared to finding your best friend or favorite uncle slumped in the corner of his bedroom after a missed dinner date.

So, ~to summarize~, if a person wants to skip the terminal end of a terminal disease, that’s up to him. Whatever, man. But I think assisted suicide is a better idea than suicide, so if you wanted a second take on this opinion, you could say that I would agree more strongly if the person wanting to die had the option of getting trained medical help instead of being forced to “wing it.”