If assisted suicide ever becomes available for ANY reason, then it would be a massive indication that we need help as a civilization. I pray that we will never come to that.
We need to inculcate a sense of reverence and value for human life, not encourage its eradication, or to spread the idea that life is not valuable enough to live for, that we are not worthy enough of living, or that we cannot overcome the circumstances we have found ourselves in. Assisted suicide for any reason means that we--as a mass population--will have lost sight of our own inherent worth, our capacity to transcend and overcome difficulties and hardships, and our incredible capacity for resiliency. I pray that we will never have to face that on a group level so deep that human life and value depreciates so much that we will help people kill themselves for any reason at all.
Your post summarizes everything that's wrong about humanity, and illustrates the totalitarian dogmatism that harms me greatly and all the suicidal people who want to die, the kind of thinking that lead us to the conudrum - or shall i say prison - we find ourselves in now.
Trying to sweep real, actual suffering under the carpet, and sacrificing the freedom of people to decide for themselves wehther they want to get out of their hellish life or not in the altar of dubious concepts and language games. We didn't chose to be born, me and people like me (who are resolved on dying) WANT TO LEAVE THIS SHITHOLE, our suffering is a real suffering. On the other hands "humanity" "value of human life" "reverence", "sacred bullshit" are just concepts influenced by anthrophomorphism, mythology and other christian doctrines and means of death denial that humans invented to reassure themselves. There is no such thing as "we as a population", if i hit you with a sword and torture you, you will suffer, even if i insult you you may suffer from it. "Humanity" on the other hand can't be harmed by my insults, i can't put my hand on it, i can't hurt it, it's a mere concept. There is no "humanity", there are human individuals. Some of them are attractive, some of them not, some of them are rich, other are not, their qualities of life is so divergent, often to such extreme lenghts that it's safe to say they habit different existential realms, in a phenomenological level. some of them think life is sacred and good, some of them think life is hellish and worthless, none of them chose to be born. Those humans don't have the same interests, mood, inclinations, life quality, values, looks etc. That's why we should always be wary of people who want to speak in the name of "humanity",. Who are you to legislate under the name of everybody ? Even if the majority is with you, imposing your will on the others isn't ethical. If the majority decides that women should wear the veil, it doesn't make it right. You have no idea of how people's lifes are, you have no idea of how hellish certain existences are, how some people can't even endure the passage of time while they are planing a suicide. And even if you did, it gives you no right to impose your dogma on others. You are asking for us to be sacrificied so that your deluded concepts and insidious religion of the "sacrality of life" can thrive ?
If you have to make it hard for people to leave a theater to boost the numbers of the audience, it's because your film is shitty and worthless. If the film is good or have any worth, people would stay by themselves. If you have to make it hard for people to chose to CTB (by being against legalized euthanasia for everybody), it's just proves that life is so awful and worthless, you have to almost force people to stay. If you can't enjoy life without forcing people to stay because them living threatens your dubious defense mechanism of the "sacrality of life" , that's for me no different that someone who can't enjoy his life if slavery is abolished, because he only enjoy life by being the "superior race".
We don't give a crap about how you think life is sacred and worthy. You can consider your life sacred and worthy, that's fine with us, that's your most legitimate right and i respect your freedom of thought and action. What you don't have the right to do is to deprive me of my liberty to decide. And that's exactly what society is doing by making all effective means to suicide illegal, and the kind of despicable, dogmatic, totalitarian logic that you've shown in your post contributes to it.
