23rd March 2004, 10:40 AM
People DO commit suicide. My great uncle shot himself because...
1.) His only daughter had just died, in her thirties, of drugs.
2.) His wife had just been killed in a botched surgery.
3.) He himself was dying of advanced cancer, and believed himself to be a burden on his remaining family.
I wish that he hadn't killed himself, but he was going to die anyway-- I think that suicide should be replaced with legal euthanasia. There should be written documentation, wherein the person officially chooses to die, and there should be witnesses, and it should be done in a comfortable, safe way. Otherwise, people find other less humane ways--my great uncle used a shotgun. His elderly mother had to walk in and find him as such.
1.) His only daughter had just died, in her thirties, of drugs.
2.) His wife had just been killed in a botched surgery.
3.) He himself was dying of advanced cancer, and believed himself to be a burden on his remaining family.
I wish that he hadn't killed himself, but he was going to die anyway-- I think that suicide should be replaced with legal euthanasia. There should be written documentation, wherein the person officially chooses to die, and there should be witnesses, and it should be done in a comfortable, safe way. Otherwise, people find other less humane ways--my great uncle used a shotgun. His elderly mother had to walk in and find him as such.
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