If you're going to commit suicide...

[Beestie]

After reading this thread, I'm stunned at how many people on the Cellar (not all are represented in this thread) have either first- or second-hand experience finding suicide victims.

I almost wonder if society needs a place for these people to go to off themselves. Maybe what we need is a SuicideAtorium - a place for people to go to do the final deed. I wonder if any of them would use it. What would such a place be like in order to attract people who want to kill themselves but without somehow encouraging it?

I'm not being entirely cynical. This wallpapering of people's homes/cars/trains/lives with grey matter needs to stop.

[Troubleshooter]

Doctor K tried. Isn't it Oklahomo that has the diginity in dying thing as well?

I can see the advertisements now...

[404Error]

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

Doctor K tried. Isn't it Oklahomo that has the diginity in dying thing as well?...

It's Oregon, and the law is being
challanged again by the Bush administration.

In the Bush administration's view, suicide is not a ``legitimate medical purpose'' under regulations that carry out the federal Controlled Substances Act. The administration will argue before the Supreme Court, as it did unsuccessfully to the lower federal courts, that doctors who prescribe drugs for physician-assisted suicide violate the federal law and are subject to revocation of their federal prescription license.

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by 404Error

It's Oregon, and the law is being
challanged again by the Bush administration.

Fuck Bush(tm).