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by el_benhameen 3761 days ago
That's just patently untrue. There's an enormous gap between the situations in which the author advocates for (and laws in various states and countries permit) assisted suicide and a society that allows you to walk into a clinic and kill yourself for any reason. The laws in California [0], Washington, Oregon, and Vermont [1], for example, require that the patient is mentally competent and is terminally ill with less than six months to live as certified by two doctors. A suicidal person won't meet the first requirement, much less the second.

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/10/05/44610780... [1] https://www.deathwithdignity.org/learn/access/