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by raydev 811 days ago
> How do you think a person suffering from a mental illness would be affected by their psychiatrist telling them that he can't help him anymore and that maybe they should consider killing themselves

Is that happening as policy? Anyway, we can always add a rule not to do this.

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That's what the article implied. Of course, I would assume (hope) it would never be this explicit but if assisted suicide is normalized, I wouldn't be surprised that some people might be implicitly steered towards this option by (if the situation seems hopeless and all easily accessible/cheap treatments have been tried)