voracitude , 5 hours ago

Assisted suicide isn’t for the temporary problems. This is for people who are definitely going to die imminently, and their symptoms and pain are only going to get worse until they do. For depression, there might be medications or therapies or other treatments.

When you are riddled with cancers and can’t walk because the tumours have grown so big your joints are being forced apart, when the tumours in your brain press on your optic nerves causing partial and worsening blindness and on your speech centres so it gets harder and harder to talk, when you can’t even eat or drink because you’re too weak to push anything down your throat into your stomach, that is what this is for. So you won’t have to ask your eldest son to kill you and end your suffering, like my mum did. So you don’t have to be that eldest son.