I won't minimise the experiences of parents who've lost children. The cruel sting of a break-up or being bullied at school and their child decided to CTB. It must be awful to lose a child. However, there are other reasons why people, adults, want to CTB and it should not be taken away from them.
In the year 2000, my mother was diagnosed with stage 4, ovarian cancer. She looked into Phillip Nitschke's literature. In the end, she was concerned about myself or my stepfather getting into trouble with the law, so she died in a hospice. Cancer is not a nice way to die. There's a lot of suffering. My mother passed in 2001. I'm supposed to have surgery, a hysterectomy and oophorectomy, after I've been through menopause... I think I'm the only woman on the planet who's been wanting to hurry up and enter menopause so I can have the surgery.
I'm pro-choice. I believe that we should be free to choose when and how we die. I'm not here to tell people that they must take their own life. I'm not a troll or cyberbully. I have no interest in tearing others down. I support those who have, of their own volition, made the choice to CTB.
I live with chronic pain, I have a stalker (not an ex) of 9+years, and I get bullied and harassed by police because I do have an ex who was a cop. Cops do nothing about the stalker. Even a few days ago I reported to police because stalker was at it again, but police did nothing, even though I have a court order on this prick. Police are fucking useless. Police unlawfully took my last home from me because I'd tried to report my ex, again, for domestic violence and sexual offences. They kicked me out of my home, onto the street. I even lost the contents of my home. My ex didn't own it and our relationship had ended years before. I couldn't get a place to rent, I wasn't eligible for social housing, etc. I bought this place where I live now. I fkn hate it here. It's worth so little that there's nothing else of equivalent value on the property market. It's even harder to find a rental property and I'm not eligible for social housing. I tried GoFundMe, but, of course, no one donated a single cent. I haven't spoken to my family in years because of deeply entrenched, generational domestic violence and abuse. I'm stuck living here and stalker knows it.
Unless the pro-lifers can come up with a magic solution to end my chronic pain, and give me about $100k to move to a safer location, after the pandemic pushed real estate prices up in rural areas as panic stricken people fled the city, they can go get fkd. They honestly need to see that there are many reasons why people want to CTB. It's not always over a short term problem.