I’m cheap (it’s a Swiss trait, so the pod is not surprising). I’d consider this over being near-comatose in a nursing home for years, draining my family’s money.
So I’m interested in any method that’s cheaper than the current plan (being shot by a huge trebuchet into an active volcano).
My go-to is hydroplaning off Niagara Falls, but to each his own.
I’d say forcing somebody you love to endure suffering because you don’t feel like letting them end that suffering is a worse expression of putting your own interests above other people’s.
However, I’d don’t see any political ideology in this. It’s something you could find in a fascist or a communist or somebody holding more moderate political views. Most people separate the way they relate to their family from the way they relate to society.
Something for the tourists to enjoy.
Specifically, mechanical suicide booths. For some reason, they had to be mechanical.
What right do I have to tell someone else, who has lived in their own head their entire life and has formed a unique understanding of their world, when they have or haven’t had enough? It’s mind-bending how people who would normally make no argument against bodily autonomy suddenly want to control the dickens out of someone else when it comes to suicide. We can debate the morality of suicide sometime, maybe even have people chime in about why they’ve pondered it (it’s not just about mental or physical agony, and not all who want it are impulsive, selfish nutters).
But as the OP is about a clean, efficient, painless method I’ll just say, “absolutely”.
A small cylinder of nitrogen in a closed car with the windows rolled up should do the job very cheap.
“…nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
Yes. That was intended as a poke in the eye to Roderick for saying
No joke. Roderick’s blaming those left behind for their grief was disgusting.
That is not what he did.
I would hope so, but your statement blaming the left behind pushed all the wrong buttons.
It was a copy and paste quote.
Responsibility and blame are not the same thing.
That didn’t happen. Roderick stated that the person who committed suicide isn’t to blame. People like you threw a tantrum because if the blame doesn’t go on the victim, then where does the blame go? Because we just have to blame somebody, because reasons.
Or we could be adults and realize that we don’t have to blame anybody. Suicide is an awful thing that happens, like cancer or diabetes. A person’s brain broke and killed them, just as if their pancreas failed. Sadness is understandable. Even anger is understandable, to a degree. But to go around blaming or carrying a grudge forever is irrational, foolish, and self-destructive.
Agreed.
@HMS_Irruncible has already said it very well, responsibility is not the same as blame. It is not appropriate or realistic to apply blame or guilt to emotions, and it is very unhealthy to try.
We’ll have to agree to disagree then. To me you’re splitting hairs and subsequent statements like
are callous in the extreme. Like it or not your life touches other lives – it’s what makes us human.
My mom died a medically-assisted death a few years ago. She was terminally ill, and her quality of life had diminished to pretty much nothing. I’m glad she had that option available, and it saddens me to know that there are people out there who would deny that option to others like her.
This is not a black and white thing. Your point is valid, but I think the only responsibility it might create is letting people know what your plan is. “Dad got in the pod last week…” is no way for the kids to find out. But, “Hey kids, I’m fukkin done and I’ll be climbing into the pod this coming Friday.” seems pretty acceptable to me. No nasty surprises, nobody is denied closure or left wondering if they might be somehow responsible for the decision, etc.