Why don't people have the right to die? It's unfair that we don't because nobody asked to born! So if someone wants to end their shitty rigged miserable unfair and unhappy life, they should have the right to die peacefully! It's selfish to force someone to live a miserable life! Misery loves company! Those who aren't happy with their lives always want to make other people unhappy! If they had a choice to end their lives quickly, painlessly, and peacefully then a lot of people would do that instead of living bitter and miserable lives. It would fix and solve so many problems! The world would be a lot better! The world would be more peaceful! But humans don't want that! Humans would never allow that to happen…
Absolutely agreed, and that was my experiences in general. Most of people who talk about things often involve some amount of misery (day to day conversation), be it struggles with work, relationships, current events, or whatnot. Also, to add to your point about people who end up living bitter and miserable lives, it would definitely solve those problems, perhaps a small subset of those who
may end up committing horrible atrocities. Now I get that not all those live bitter and miserable lives end up doing so, but even if it prevented at least one or a few, that's a few less tragedies and horrible outcomes in the news and to others in society, thus it's a net win. Sadly, pro-lifers, anti-choicers, and similar people just don't see it that way.
I think it's really to prevent rash and convulsive decisions. Most people would have wanted to die at some point in their life, but it's because suicide isn't easy that they stay alive. For example, let's say you broke up with your partner. Some people would be absolutely crushed and if given a button to just instantly die they might irrationality take it. People are capable of turning their life around and it happens a lot more than you might think. Society preserves life, and we want to prevent people who could've lived from dying.
From that perspective to prevent impulsive CTBs that would make sense. However, many preventionists and anti-choicers, pro-lifers all lump suicidal people into the same category and treat each suicide as about the same (barring those go via death with dignity or those with terminal illnesses). Even if the person who was once stopped and later decides that they wish to die yet again, they would still be denied the option and further victimized (locked up against their will, forcibly drugged and so forth). The other issue is treating suicide not as a rational decision that someone could make, but as some sort of pathological illness that must be treated. It is very insulting and degrading to reduce people who already made up their mind to that of infants or even incompetent people, but I digress. I do believe that society needs to change that way and to recognize that the decision of suicide is not a product of mental illness, but could also be a well-calculated, deliberate choice borne of rationality and (perhaps the greatest) act of self-determination.
It would be so easy to prevent rash descions. In my world, If somebody can't prove an incurable sufferable illness, which would indeed grand them quick button push, I would give everyone applying for euthanasia a mandatory 6-month-waiting-period where they are free to talk to family/ friends/ or, if they want to, escially trained therapists about their desire to die without fear of getting incarcerated. They are free to cancel the appointment in this 6 month period whenever they want, and most people propably will, I would say you are only allowed to apply every 3 years so there is no constant back-and-forth with people applying and quitting.
I like this idea, it gives people a chance to be able to say their goodbyes and get their affairs in order, and
most importantly, without fear of being locked up, forcibly drugged and treated against their will, and be able to have open, candid discussions about the topic instead of hiding in the dark all the time.
