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by sebazzz 810 days ago
> What's the difference? It's unavoidable that long term if assisted suicide is normalized (and even endorsed by the healthcare system) more people who wouldn't have chosen that option on their own will decide to kill themselves (or ask a doctor to do it).

What does that matter? Aren’t we all supposed to be entitled to have that control over our own lives?

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Perhaps. But that seems like an illusion to me in this case. One can hardly consider people suffering from severe mental illnesses to be capable of making rational choices which would mean that their decisions would be influence significantly more by the environment and the people that surround them.