The real problem is that your decision in any given moment may not be the same as your decision averaged over years. You could be happy 99% of the time. But if 1% of the time you’re suicidal, and we have Futurama suicide booths on every corner, then you cut what would be an overall quite positive and enjoyable life tragically short.
A waiting period would eliminate passing fancies. I don’t think missed enjoyment of life is a good reason. That’s the risk an individual would have to bear. When you are dead, you don’t miss things anyway.
The right to autonomy, the right to choose one’s own death is more important.
Even if suicides like that were commonplace, and I’ve seen nothing other than hypotheticals that they would be, it still doesn’t trump what is a core human right.
Secondarily, while I know you were being hyperbolic with the suicide booth thing, that just isn’t a realistic thing. Anyone wanting to commit suicide on their own already can. There’s dozens of ways to check out that are impossible to regulate away, so trying to use that as a barrier to people wanting to exercise their body autonomy in the most humane and gentle way possible is just silly. It verges on insulting to exaggerate that far.
The point is that you don’t get to decide what someone else’s life is worth. I don’t. The government doesn’t. Well, shouldn’t. It comes down to the individual, and the conscience of the individual provider. Nobody should be forced to help someone exit, but interfering with that from the outside is abhorrent.
The real problem is that your decision in any given moment may not be the same as your decision averaged over years. You could be happy 99% of the time. But if 1% of the time you’re suicidal, and we have Futurama suicide booths on every corner, then you cut what would be an overall quite positive and enjoyable life tragically short.
A waiting period would eliminate passing fancies. I don’t think missed enjoyment of life is a good reason. That’s the risk an individual would have to bear. When you are dead, you don’t miss things anyway.
I don’t see a problem in that.
The right to autonomy, the right to choose one’s own death is more important.
Even if suicides like that were commonplace, and I’ve seen nothing other than hypotheticals that they would be, it still doesn’t trump what is a core human right.
Secondarily, while I know you were being hyperbolic with the suicide booth thing, that just isn’t a realistic thing. Anyone wanting to commit suicide on their own already can. There’s dozens of ways to check out that are impossible to regulate away, so trying to use that as a barrier to people wanting to exercise their body autonomy in the most humane and gentle way possible is just silly. It verges on insulting to exaggerate that far.
The point is that you don’t get to decide what someone else’s life is worth. I don’t. The government doesn’t. Well, shouldn’t. It comes down to the individual, and the conscience of the individual provider. Nobody should be forced to help someone exit, but interfering with that from the outside is abhorrent.