[shortcake27]

Agreed.

Whenever I suggest adults should be in control of their own lives, I get a response along the lines of “we’d see mass suicide if people had an easy option to end their life”.

Ok, so let’s think about that. There may be thousands of people whose lives are so bad they’d take an easy way out if it were available. So the idea is to keep that option off the table, so those people are forced to live out the rest of their lives suffering?

To anyone who holds this opinion, I’d really like to know why. What reason could you possibly have to prefer someone you don’t even know to live in suffering opposed to them having control over their own life?

[morbicer]

Exactly. Their body their choice. And if there are thousands of people going out this way it should be a trigger for society to do better and work on reducing the suffering.

[reducesuffering]

These maximalist individual freedom ideological positions always astound me. Like people haven't thought one step past "you should be able to trade with anyone, anything, and put it into your body." Should you be able to buy an instant feel-good suicide pill at the corner store? That way anyone who is having a temporary tough time has a one-way door to ending their entire life that future them would've been glad they hadn't ended?

We already see what a catastrophic mess there is when people can buy instant feel-good fentanyl pills that wreck the rest of their entire life.

[spanglasaur]

Because who would serve them their fast food and receive unwanted abuse if not some miserable wretch who isn't allowed to die? I wonder what the working pool would look like if a policy like this were adopted.

[hotpotamus]

What I've never understood about the question in the US at least is that firearms are already freely available and make suicide very easy.