Assisted Suicide

Right now I'd be far less comfortable with assisted suicide in the case of psychiatric illness for three reasons:-

1. I (thankfully) haven't any personal experience or have known anyone so affected by psychiatric illness that they wanted to commit suicide but I am aware it is one of the key reasons people take their own lives.
2. Psychiatric illness's are not in and of themselves physically "terminal" as far as I'm aware but then I'm really not very well informed in that regard.
3. Psychiatric illness and its severity, which might have to be assessed and judged, before someone could seek an assisted suicide would require far more subjective judgement than someone with a terminal illness who's prognosis is well understood and accepted amongst medical experts.

The above does not mean I think people with severe psychiatric illness are suffering any less than those with non psychiatric terminal illnesses and it does not mean I think it's impossible for a safe protocol to be developed to allow those with the most severe and life debilitating psychiatric illnesses, with little or no possibility of improvement, to have a safe pathway to a release from such suffering via assisted suicide.

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