RE: Physician Assisted Suicide for Mental Illness #endthestigma
I came here browing @zanoni's backlog and I have to say: I'm unsure!
I have to deal with medium grade depression (as it is called in Germany) myself and I feel I have gotten better and worse at the same time.
I was in a hospital in 2017 and they let me go after 6 weeks even though I insisted I would have rather stayed longer. I was told to seek help from a psychotherapist and a weekly support giver. After a year of both I'm unhappy with either. (I was prescribed 12 sessions with the psychotherapist and I did not even use them all so far, although the prescription was given in May or June.)
Actually, it's a small step from "killing terminally ill" to euthanasia. :/
Maybe in half a century there will be no newborns with chromosome triplets, congenital diseases, hereditary diseases and so on ... who knows?
However, we have to keep room for those kids and adults still. Because most of them want to live.
It's not easy to have both in legislation actually. That's the real issue.