Discussion Just for curiosity, If you had a 100% guaranteed way out like euthanasia, would you wait?

[Cashewmilk]

I have this fantasy of euthanasia in a future society for everyone, adults over 18 of course. But I have this rule for my idea, I would put a 5 year waiting period for people who are either healthy and normal, or are suffering from depression or a mental illness that isn't catastrophic. I'm sure there are plenty of ways this could go wrong or have unintended effects, what would you think would happen? And if you had this opportunity, would you be able to wait the 5 years? Personally I know I would, I'm totally biased and basing this on myself obviously, because it's just a fantasy haha. I've been suicidal for 20 years so yeah I would have zipped through that waiting period and have been long gone by now, and from today, I could wait until 2025 for sure, for a guaranteed peaceful legal quick death, heck yes! What would be your fantasy version :)

 

[soledad.virgen]

No, I live in constant pain that essentially renders any attempts at work and art impossible, so a five year wait would only prolong my suffering

 

[Cashewmilk]

No, I live in constant pain that essentially renders any attempts at work and art impossible, so a five year wait would only prolong my suffering

Same here. I'm into art too and it seems like the only thing that I have going for me as far as a career or just to make any money at all, even chump change. And I can't even do that. I'm currently unemployed and living with my abusive family, I think if I had money I'd probably be OK and put off the suicidal thoughts for a while, maybe even invest in some way to do it peacefully.

 

[Gromit-CTB]

I would want to go immediately, good idea but couldn't wait another 5 years. I am struggling to survive 1 day let alone 5 years

 

[yive]

give me the gun and i'll do it right now

 

[profoundexperience]

Although I think 5 years would be a cruel "waiting period" duration...

If we had any kind of formalized, socially-accepted, safe and guaranteed way of ending our lives... Where as long as I had done the 5 years, no one could object/block me further... I would be willing to put-up with a "waiting period".

 

[TheSkyIsBlue]

I would try to wait. In the worst case, I'd kill myself before it if it became totally unbearable.

 

[rvsw]

Not at all..i have been approved van not go

 

[CalmStrikeofMercy]

Could never get society or the court system to approve of it even though people already do.

<dystopia>I am ready, my body is ready, after the thousands of cuts. People's attempt at building a society has been a failure.

The prevailing sense of anomie mixed with the never ending warfare both domestically and abroad mixed with absurd laws in a zero-sum game reality mixed with a cocktail of double standards mixed with the draconian prison industrial war complex machine of the U.S. I could not identify where the heart and soul and mind of the country I live in is at anymore let alone other countries who stoke the flames of suffering for other people, to begin to even know how to participate other than to just die.
Yes. I would offer my body up for science in return for the good death. People could have my organs who actually want to be alive and can actually make something of themselves or who have people whom need them to be alive. People could use me for medical science. There is good that can come from assisted dying. I am O- btw. Pretty sure I am disease free too.
</dystopia>

 

[AutoTap]

Idk it depends on a lot of things

 

[MindFog]

Maybe i'll agree if it were a month or two. Waiting seems appealing just so i can peacefully enjoy the month knowing i'll surely die after all this. 5 years seems like torture.

 

[Cursed4ever]

Definitely not

 

[NodusTollens]

Noooope.
When I tell you I shook my head profusely, almost gave myself a headache.

I joke about it, but I've wanted to die since I was a kid- I don't think I have that much time left in me. Another 5 years sounds like agony.

 

[kohaku]

Five years is definitely far too cruel of a waiting period. I'd make the waiting time dependent on the person's circumstances, ranging from a week to a year. Their financial situation, how many treatments they've tried, if it's a terminal illness, how much pain they're in... Lots of different factors.

 

[Meditation guide]

I've been in constant pain for five years already with no quality of life. No reason to wait.

 

[PDAnnie2610]

Not 5 years please. It's too cruel to force a quarrelsome and lonely woman with an achy and stiff body to wait that long.

 

[Meditation guide]

Not 5 years please. It's too cruel to force a quarrelsome and lonely woman with an achy and stiff body to wait that long.

Our numbers are legion.

 

[Okami]

Just end me now, please.

 

[rabbithole]

It'd be a relief to know there was an end in sight but I'd deteriorate badly before the five years were up. I want to die asap.

 

[Lastsauce]

Six months to one year waiting period which you could renew I would accept instantly. Five years is very long time for people who are suffering.
I can just hope that getting any kind of help gets better and easier than it is now.

 

[Gaybonez]

No, I live in constant pain that essentially renders any attempts at work and art impossible, so a five year wait would only prolong my suffering

Can I ask what caused it?

 

[Bigpink]

Would do it right now, nothing to hang around for.

 

[whitefeather]

I have this fantasy of euthanasia in a future society for everyone, adults over 18 of course. But I have this rule for my idea, I would put a 5 year waiting period for people who are either healthy and normal, or are suffering from depression or a mental illness that isn't catastrophic. I'm sure there are plenty of ways this could go wrong or have unintended effects, what would you think would happen? And if you had this opportunity, would you be able to wait the 5 years? Personally I know I would, I'm totally biased and basing this on myself obviously, because it's just a fantasy haha. I've been suicidal for 20 years so yeah I would have zipped through that waiting period and have been long gone by now, and from today, I could wait until 2025 for sure, for a guaranteed peaceful legal quick death, heck yes! What would be your fantasy version :)

Over-the-counter pentobarbital at every store like aspirin. No wait period .

Portuguese parliament approves law to legalise euthanasia

Portugal's parliament voted on Friday to legalise euthanasia, setting the country up to become the seventh in the world to allow terminally ill patients to seek assistance from a doctor to end their life.

www.reuters.com

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

No time constraint at the moment, so I'd definitely be able to wait for half a decade or two.

 

[Cashewmilk]

Five years is definitely far too cruel of a waiting period. I'd make the waiting time dependent on the person's circumstances, ranging from a week to a year. Their financial situation, how many treatments they've tried, if it's a terminal illness, how much pain they're in... Lots of different factors.

I think I have my idea in mind with the current society system. Because we all know that they won't give us anything AT ALL, so I feel like 5 years was a compromise. I think you're right though, it should be dependent on those things. I heard Germany is offering this for a 1 year waiting period, so that's amazing, but they can stop it at any point which is unsettling. I wrote this post before I heard about that. And of course I wrote it in mind with MY life and problems, since that's all I know, so I'm glad to hear other's thoughts. I don't even care if people are being impulsive or crying over a breakup and they're 16, life is ALWAYS going to suck, better to end it than be a rich person's wage slave, imo.

I totally believe in the right to want to die, and to not want to exist. I totally believe in the fact that none of us asked to be here (unless you're a parent in a 1st world country that chose to keep the pregnancy, then you've clearly made your choice because you've now forced someone else to be here which means you're OK with existing - but we both know that's NOT true and you had kids for a different reason to please yourself). And I totally believe that we shouldn't have to be forced into this world. I'd love it if everyone could leave this life on a whim, I really would, but that will never happen, not in this society.

 

[booray]

I'd wait it out because I have enough money to last me five years, but certainly not enough for much beyond that. And as I am unemployed and that is one of the main reasons I wish to ctb, knowing that I have enough money to live in until my departure date would be a huge relief and allow to enjoy the rest of my time here without worrying about having to work.

 

[Trisolaris]

No, that is too long. I wouldn't be able to wait.

 

[the_final_countdown]

I don't have the capability to take my life, despite how much I'm suffering.

I think someone could torture me, literally burn my flesh off for hours, and I would still not be able to pull the trigger if they gave me a shotgun to end it.

That's why I'm so angry with myself. That nobody how much I suffer, how fucking low I'll fall, despite having the capability to end my life, I'll just suffer.

Do you know how terrifying that is? How dark my future can get?

I could be homeless with a rotting leg, cold and starving. AND STILL I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO...The despair is overwhelming. How come I can't do i? I can't do it.

I would wait the five years, not because I want to, but because I cannot overcome my biological constraints. I cannot overcome them.

I would spend those days staring at my walls. Sleeping. Dreaming those five years away.

I would count the days. Fast forward as much as I can. As much as I can.

God help me. I don't want to be here anymore. I want to rest. I want the suffering to end. How much more am I supposed to bear Adonai?

 

[muffin222]

No, I'd do it ASAP

 

[Ath]

No. I want to go ASAP.