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https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/suicide.htm Florida and Texas way out in front of Oregon, Washington D.C., Hawaii, Washington, Maine, Colorado, New Jersey, California, and Vermont. Of course, we don't, in either the high or low suicide rate states know how many of those people are natives, and how went there just to die. (Florida, quite a lot, I would imagine)Owning a handgun is associated with a dramatically elevated risk of suicide, according to new Stanford research that followed 26 million California residents over a 12-year period.
... like when the family member who find the body destroys their suicide note to avoid the stigma.Suicide has been a hidden and unspoken action for centuries. Religious proscriptions and, later, legal penalties kept it underground and secret. ....inaccuracies and general underreporting in the tallying of suicide deaths.....A death is not classified as suicide unless there is unequivocal evidence to do so: “It is likely that suicide may be under reported due to both the social stigma associated with suicide as well as the reluctance of a medical examiner or coroner to make this classification if supporting data are uncertain
My position on this has softened today.[/quot
I'm delighted to hear that. It's none of my business, but I do wonder why.
— Andrew4Handel
I still think it could lead to a slippery slope easily. — Andrew4Handel
I'm delighted to hear that. It's none of my business, but I do wonder why. — Andrew4Handel
Agreed. Euthanasia, like abortion, happens with or without lawful assistance so on "pragmatic or rational grounds", assisted suicide should adequately regulated in order to minimize abuses or hazards but not criminalized.I think assisted suicide should be argued about on pragmatic or rational grounds but not based ones own personal beliefs. — Andrew4Handel
I don't see how this is relevant to deliberating on the issue (except maybe to the one in need of assisted suicide).Some people believe in an afterlife some don't.
I suppose it is to do with allowing people to be released from severe suffering. — Andrew4Handel
But after palliative care has been explored preferably. — Andrew4Handel
I think my concern is devaluing life. — Andrew4Handel
I think assisted suicide should be argued about on pragmatic or rational grounds but not based ones own personal beliefs. — Andrew4Handel
A person could vote for or not protest an assisted suicide bill that has negative consequences or is simply objectively immoral. — Andrew4Handel
We are always in danger of supporting ideologies and programs that we don't know the full ramifications of. — Andrew4Handel
I don't think we can know whether are values are valid without some kind of arbiter like moral facts that doesn't depend on humans. — Andrew4Handel
I strongly believe it's immoral to force thousands of people to suffer for one's own inability to predict every possible consequence of every legislation. — Vera Mont
Some people believe in an afterlife some don't.
I don't see how this is relevant to deliberating on the issue (except maybe to the one in need of assisted suicide). — 180 Proof
You reject the efficacy of palliative care. — Andrew4Handel
Having a child is forcing someone to suffer. — Andrew4Handel
If your belief that it is immoral is not objective then what is it other than a statement of personal preference? — Andrew4Handel
The consequences of the legislation have already being manifested in the cases I raised and the history of eugenics and the Nazis etc and judging some life not to be worth living. — Andrew4Handel
Anyway, how far can you trust a loving, merciful god who would condemn you to eternal suffering for refusing to prolong the undeserved suffering he'd meted out to you? — Vera Mont
However, none of these risks are comparable to the known, palpable, inevitable suffering of someone who has bone cancer, begs for the means of escape and being surrounded by jurists who tell him "No, because if we let you die, then some other people whom we don't consider eligible might also choose to die. You don't own your life; we do." — Vera Mont
So-called civilized governments sentence innocent people to death every day, and send healthy, fit young ones out into battlefields to kill and be killed for no logical reason, and let people starve and freeze to death on streets, and pine away in refugee camps and prisons. — Vera Mont
That's irrelevant. Anyway, search wiki & google.How many slavery abolitionist were irreligious? — Andrew4Handel
I do not really understand your argument Andrew. You are an antinatalist, so you must feel the chances of spending life suffering is bigger than the chance of becoming happy. Why then, would you withhold the medicine to end the suffering for someone so unlucky as to have been born, just because others are needed to administer it? Your position simply seems cruel by your own lights. — Tobias
Religion was used to justify slavery and absolve slaveholders. Read the Bible. "Thou Shalt Not Enslave Others" is not one of "God's commandments". No prophet has ever preached "Free all slaves!" or "Slave masters are damned to Hell!" — 180 Proof
But you trust the same governments and society to enact an ethical assisted suicide scheme? — Andrew4Handel
That's irrelevant. Anyway, search wiki & google. — 180 Proof
I hope the government shifts to policies more in line with my convictions. — Vera Mont
However Antinatalists often face the objection that if you don't like life you can just kill yourself. — Andrew4Handel
It is an easy way out for parents to say "well you can commit suicide?" and have the state facilitate it. — Andrew4Handel
It is something that people have said to me and health professions and other professionals can offer suicide over assistance as has happened. — Andrew4Handel
Maybe you can find a few, to defend the idea that religion is the problem. — Andrew4Handel
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