A person that is depressed cannot be guaranteed under any circumstances to make rational decisions just FYI. BTW a lot of people are nowadays not only committing suicide but killing their loved ones EG sons,spouses, daughters etc in the process, should that be allowed as well? How do you know if and when that line is crossed or about to be?GStone wrote:Not the assited ones. That is a different story than the solo acts. The assisted ones can have people come back and say 'hey, maybe they changed their minds since you pulled the trigger'. I'm just talking about the solo ones. Many docs these days say 'it' my job to keep them alive at all cost'. The guy obviously said nuts to that. But, even if you said they were overly depressed or something, if they do it again, it's treated the exact same way. 'Err on the side of life'. No amount of suicide watch is gonna stop them and yet, many of the docs today have the balls to say 'fuck what you think, I'm gonna keep you alive, whether you like it or not. You didn't ign the DNR.' And some don't even care about that.
If I'm gonna take the time to plan a suicide, I don't want some stranger coming in and saying 'look how good and great and wonderful I am. I just saved his life, even though he doesn't give a shit about me or my ego driven desire to his body working; all he wants is to die, but I can't stand that'.
You see is not that simple and again this is off topic...