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what do you think about assisted suicide for mental illness? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by opiumfree@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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what do u think about it morally/in the abstract and in practice in capitalist states like northern europe?

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[–] starkillerfish@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

capitalist society puts people into poverty + creates mental health crisis. this pressures people into looking for easy solutions. euthanasia is one of them. the people most affected by this are often racialized and/or lgbt+. we already see extremely high rates of suicide of trans teens for instance. creating legal structures for it only creates easier conditions for a eugenicist disposal of the "undesirables," instead of actually solving the issues that lead people to be depressed (money, healthcare, alienation etc)

[–] starkillerfish@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a society with legal euthanasia without universal healthcare / shelter / food is just a society that values death of "undesirable / unproductive" population over universal life

[–] opiumfree@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

people in favour of assisted suicide never take alienation into account. if you want to be an artist but have to be a corporate worker of course you will want to kill yourself