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  • Current definitions of mental healthiness include a desire to not die (or at least a lack of a desire to die), and that will likely only change once we invent effective immortality. So a mentally stable adult wishing to end their life is a contradiction in terms.
  • Ilmarinen said:

    Why is assisted suicide as an option only being pushed for for the terminally or incurably ill? If a mentally stable, competent, and healthy adult wishes to end their life, is there any non-religious reason for them not to be provided assistance (assuming legality of assisted suicide and all that)?

    Euthanasia is only a last resort procedure for humane purposes. If an adult is mentally stable and competent they wouldn't need to end their life as a first step.
    There are obviously other problems at play in this situation.
  • Because determining "mentally stable" in those conditions is a massive clusterfuck of epic proportions.
  • And they probably wouldn't get enough repeat business.
  • Why would a healthy adult need any assistance in taking their own life? They could do it fairly easily without any help from a medical professional.
  • Why would a healthy adult need any assistance in taking their own life? They could do it fairly easily without any help from a medical professional.

    It turns out most people can't. One of the most effective ways to prevent suicide is to remove readily available and easy-to-execute means.
  • Rym said:

    Why would a healthy adult need any assistance in taking their own life? They could do it fairly easily without any help from a medical professional.

    It turns out most people can't. One of the most effective ways to prevent suicide is to remove readily available and easy-to-execute means.
    This is very true. When they put up better fences to prevent you from jumping off the GWB, people don't just find another bridge. The suicide rate actually went down.
  • Isn't Japan rated one of the safest countries in the world? Yet it has one of the highest suicide rates there. So there must plenty of ways to take one's life beside jumping off a bridge or in front of a train.
  • Because dishonor.
  • MATATAT said:

    Because dishonor.

    No because they work themselves to mental exhaustion, or physical illness. They call this phenomenon 過労死
  • Blame it on the se-sese-se-sese-seppuku.
  • Ilmarinen said:

    Why is assisted suicide as an option only being pushed for for the terminally or incurably ill? If a mentally stable, competent, and healthy adult wishes to end their life, is there any non-religious reason for them not to be provided assistance (assuming legality of assisted suicide and all that)?

    A mentally stable, competent, and healthy adult does not wish to end their life. Someone wishing to end their life is either not mentally stable, not competent, or not healthy and is in need of help.
  • What about somebody who wants to donate a vital organ to save another life? Which would end their life but save another. Would you deem them unstable as well?
  • What about somebody who wants to donate a vital organ to save another life? Which would end their life but save another. Would you deem them unstable as well?

    My god this forum loves the whacked-out scenarios. Yes, if they don't prioritize their own life over others then I call them insane.
  • What about somebody who wants to donate a vital organ to save another life? Which would end their life but save another. Would you deem them unstable as well?

    When has this ever happened? I don't think a real doctor would perform such a procedure. When you donate an organ, and you aren't dead yet, it's usually a Kidney or something else you can live without.
  • Wasn't there a will smith movie about this?
  • It's a hypothetical question guys. It's so easy to wind you all sometimes.
  • Am I just a grumpy old man in my quarter life or is actually stupid teens call their group of friends a "squad?"
  • I've only seen it as a thing on tumblr and maybe instagram but then again I don't generally hang out with stupid teens.
  • It's a hypothetical question guys. It's so easy to wind you all sometimes.

    There's no such thing as hypothetical scenarios here.
  • Am I just a grumpy old man in my quarter life or is actually stupid teens call their group of friends a "squad?"

    What's the problem with that? Clique, gang, group, squad, "the boys/girls", etc. you've gotta call them something.
  • If it bothers you that much, just imagine them all as Squirtles and have a laugh.
  • I was thinking of getting a DDR dancepad, but then remembered I'm in a second story apartment. Even with a hard foam dancepad I'd still be a total douchebag, right?
  • Probably.
  • Only one way to find out.
  • DDR is for basements.
  • Apreche said:

    DDR is for basements.

  • We play regularly on the third floor. Zero problems.
  • Rym said:

    We play regularly on the third floor. Zero problems.

    Your modern building is very firm. So is mine. Most are not.
  • My building is neither modern nor firm. But I'm not that find of my downstairs neighbors. I'll consider it.
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