I hear you Lucas, but you know from your past attempts that you really don't want to be successful so when your feeling like that may be some thing that is on your mind , have a friends number or family member to reach out to and help you get past that difficult time. I am in no way saying anyone should hurt themselves, I am stating that is should be a personal choice of the individual to decide what they do or don't do with their life and body and to do so with no interference or judgement from others. As long as it doesn't risk others and can be done in a professional manner.

I agree that people should have the freedom to choose what they do with their lives and their bodies. I'm looking at it this way. On average there are 3 million cases of clinical depression reported each year. Imagine how many are not reported because people can't afford to see a professional. As someone who's struggled with depression for most of my life I look at the numbers and think, what if 10% of that is people who felt as bad as I did when I attempted. That would be 300'000 people possibly attempting suicide. I say let's make more advances in treatments and coping mechanisms. Neuroscientists have made so many discoveries in the 21st century to understand more about what's happening in the brain of a depression sufferer. Making suicide completely legal is just encouraging the depression sufferer to give up when they're may be a solution they just haven't tried yet. There is no coming back from it... People are going to commit suicide that's just how it is, but legalizing it would increase the number of suicide deaths by alot. I don't agree with that. It should only be legal for people who have excruciating bodily pain, not mental pain - and it's hard for me to say that because depression is real pain - in my opinion.

And BTW, I also do not agree with locking people in a hospital and drugging them up to deal with their problems. I don't know what the right solution is for everyone. I'm just saying doing something that would ultimately increase the number of unnecessary deaths is the wrong way to go.

I feel you.

@Lucas20520 depression is a killer thing to have. Make sure you never have guns in your home. My son feels he'd be dead if he had easy access to guns. He is suffering from depression. And I do agree, assisted suicide would not be a cool idea for people like you.

I agree.... BTW, you have a creepy profile picture, lol.

@MsOliver I've never heard of a single recorded case of anyone who would want to end their lives to save the "limited resources" of this world for the next generation except in extream cases where not doing so could leave their child to starve and so forth.

Even if there is an example I doubt a full psycological evaluation would find them sane enough to make that decision. At least not in any person who isn't facing a life threatening illness of some sort.

Maybe there is someone who is fully sane who wishes to end their life for that reason. I don't know. I do know it would run contrary to every survival instict we have as humans.

@Reydereyes227 Umm, with us baby boomers getting older and increasing the ageing population tremendously, I think there will be greater numbers of people who will just think: I'm done. Much like ms Oliver suggests, too. I knew one old lady who took her life, more or less because she didn't care to become any older still. She had organized this chemical stuff, not legal in New Zealand, and she was an activist for "Exit". ( the fight for the right to choose) But It would be asking a bit much of doctors to help perfectly well people go into the nether nether.

that is very true, step in front of a fast train or point a large calibre pistol with hollow points towards the back of your throat in your mouth.

Not if your body is totally non functioning. I actually knew this man who had lost his eyesight, and his hearing was getting real bed, too. And he talked about suicide to me, suggesting that knowing his luck, if he tried to do it, as in walk out into an oncoming truck, he may well be crippled as well as blind and half deaf, but still alive. In his case, I reckon, if you as a friend or spouse helped in the suicide, maybe it should not be counted as murder.

@ZebZaman correction: bad not bed. Can't edit up there, don't want to re-write it all.

Both pills and traffic can backfire real badly. You live, but with added disabilities. And with traffic, you cause someone else trauma or even criminal conviction as well. No easy answers here, just saying. But I agree, that it is asking too much of a doctor to assist others than the terminally ill.

@ZebZaman you're right about traffic. Just meant to find a way to do it yourself.

Yes - I thought of a good way years ago.

But first you need a generator with a push button start, and a full tank.

Bring it into a room, and close all doors and windows. Turn it on. Ya got 20min of consciousness, then another 30 or so of being alive. No fuss, no major mess, no loss of dignity. And you can have pets with you, play music, be eating your favorite exit foods, even invite those that may wish to go also ! AND if you take aspirin beforehand, you'll avoid the headaches that may come with Co2 inhalation. Bye-bye !