If suicide were fully destigmatized and assisted suicide available - /pol/ (#507118046) [Archived: 1215 hours ago]

Anonymous ID: QN5C8ZbNUnited States
6/12/2025, 8:17:01 PM No.507118046
Suicide Manet
Suicide Manet
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to the masses, how many people in your country would opt out of life, do you think, each year?
I think it's mostly age old stigmas against suicide that keeps people who hate their lives from ending their lives. That and the possibility of botching the suicide or the mess it will leave if you use a bullet.
But if suicide were normalized like any other medical procedure, and there were support networks of professionals available for those who wonder if they're better off dead than alive, then, I think, in the US alone, at least a couple million people per year would take the assisted suicide route.
Out deaths would be outnumbering our births each year, possibly by quite a large margin. A lot of people cling to life by a threat, just due to fear, stigma, not wanting to hurt relatives' feelings etc.
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Anonymous ID: 8Tb3FvkiUnited States
6/12/2025, 8:19:30 PM No.507118270
>>507118046 (OP)
It's easy to believe that everybody's suicidal when you're suicidal but that isn't actually the case. Most people don't even have an inner monologue to self-reflect to the extent they realize suicide as an option. If you ask most people they'll tell you honestly they've never considered harming themselves, much less suicide.