Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
Euthanasia should be legal and encouraged for people with terminal diseases like dementia. Suicide should be legally available to all citizens too
Encouraged??
Bad choice of word. Meant more along the lines of informed and not shunned, but in some cases of dementia the family members need a reality check on what humane for the person with dementia
If you mean encouraged as in "You should know that you have this option, and there is nothing wrong with taking it", then yes. But no one should ever be telling a terminally ill person that they should kill themselves because of it.
Yes. That is what I meant. Bad choice of words on my part. However, in cases of severe dementia euthanasia is much more humane than letting someone live in agony without the ability to express themselves. This obviously wouldn’t be the same as someone with terminal cancer, etc. Dementia is a true motherfucker.
Mine is that we should let people humanely end their lives whenever they choose to, no questions asked. I don't understand this need to keep everyone alive who doesn't want to be. Life is fucking hard as it is to have depression, and on top of that, be forced to deal with all of this every day in misery.
I already went through depression and it was awful, but now that I don't have it, I don't really find life any more appealing than before. I still often wonder, do I really want to live through this shit for the next 40 fucking years?
Ok, "encouraged" just goes into some very dark territory.