@AutoTripper
I don't know about your comparison. Should non-verbal people with severe disabilities be put down? Consent is important, even with animals. Most of the time animals are put down because they become a burden to their owner. I'm not convinced it is a humane thing most of the time, nor am I convinced that nature is incomplete somehow and requires human medical intervention.
I'm not sure where I stand on euthanasia. I feel like - a lot of the time - there's a mental health aspect that doesn't get the attention it perhaps deserves. I guess my thoughts on euthanasia are similar to abortion. It must exist, but access should be limited... There was one case I read about where a teenage girl underwent euthanasia for mental health issues.
Most people who've been through a period of suicidal ideation are glad they didn't kill themselves. I know I am glad I'm still here.
I feel like I can take anything that life throws at me. My only concern is being a burden on my family, but that is something that also comes up in the disability sector... and we don't euthanise severely autistic people, for example. If we did, it would be for us not them.
My imaginary vision of potential euthanasia, has always I realised included a. Very sophisticated screening process, really exploring the individuals reasons, needs, challenges, potential opportunities regarding therapies and lifestryle changes.
I wasn’t actually referencing to mute, incommunicable people who cannot express their feelings and desires. In my future society though, we will all have learnt to communicate telepathically as I know we have it within us to do, or at least to lean to do, so that barrier could be eliminated even.
The point about the animals being put down, is when they’re have reached a point of no life, no prospects of any single day getting any easier for them, or their owners. Just prolonged sufffering and pain.
In such cases, rather than saying...no you have to just watch your dog slowly waste away to bone in anguish til the bitter end, as there is no possible prognosis for any improvement, we can ease their passing now. For a fucking fee lol! Pay to die!
So I’m speaking in reference not to people with serious mental health difficultitiesnwhere they are not in their right mind due to life’s unresolved traumas, and desperate for a way out.
I would hope in future more advanced, effective mental health support, therapy, treatment could be offered in such cases.
But there are others, terminally ill, in unbearable pain, increasing daily, weaker and weaker, severely anxious about the mess of their life’s fragments around them, pressure and strain on their families, the fear, uncertainty, guilt too, over their ever impending slow, painful death.
Like my uncle died 2019 from stomach and lung tumors. He had zero chance of beating it, caught so late, escalated so quickly. He suffered horrendously. My Aunty had to care for him to the bitter END.
Lots of people live truly insufferable lives. The “braver”(?) ones take suicide. I’m not that brave myself, although I could resolve to fast or even quicker, dehydrate to my end if I really couldn’t go on with the increasingly painful fight in life.
So I’m not saying, right, euthanasia.com just make an account and it should be all good.
And I certainly did not mean to imply people incommunicable could have the decision simply made for them like the 14 year old Greyhound whose back legs have given way, in too much general injury pain to bear. So maybe you misunderstood my point there slightly?
I think the topic is worthy of explanation, but I’m not at all proposing a turn up, sign in and die clinic at all.
If I made those comments last night (?), it’s stupidly foggy, I was on one serious acid trip. I plugged 600 ug, smacked me to space with really strong weed and kava. I’ve never tripped nearly so hard on 600 ug oral, it just kept coming on in waves and waves, I need to lay off acid. About 120 tabs now since February.
Just making kava now to feel less crazy as I do currently next day after my heavy trips.