“I Helped 8 People Die”
It is insane that we make people huddle into dark alleys and underground societies, simply to have agency over their own lives.<p>I know and understand the main arguments against assisted suicide. The idea that it would pressure people into taking their own lives, in order to please others. With respect, such arguments are nonsensical. People feel external pressures every day to do things that they may not want to do. Pursue careers they may not enjoy. Get married when they may not want to. Have kids even if they don&#x27;t want to. Should the government step in every time and ban the activity entirely, simply to ensure that no one ever gives in to peer pressure? Of course not.<p>We recognize that freedom, liberty and individual agency, trumps any concerns about peer pressure. We recognize that our life decisions should be in our own hands, and not in the hands of big brother. It&#x27;s time we allowed people full control to end their lives on their own terms, and not on the terms forced upon them.