Anonymous
ID: kQvEYgX3
8/22/2025, 6:27:09 PM No.513717917
The most humane way to handle homelessness in the United States, out of all the realistic methods, is to offer homeless people assisted suicide and encourage them to use this service. First of all, assisted suicide is virtually guaranteed to work, unlike a lot of other suicide attempts where the person survives and is badly damaged, even permanently damaged, afterward. Some people even survive gunshot wounds to the head, though it isn't common, and generally a gunshot to the head is the surest and easiest way to commit suicide. A few people have even survived shotgun blasts to the head. I've seen pictures, like on the early internet website Rotten.com in the late 1990s and early 2000s. What's left is just a stump on top of the neck, with evidently enough brain matter remaining to enable vital functions of the body to continue working.
So physician assisted suicide is far more reliable and is guaranteed not to be very painful, just a poke with a needle. Also, with assisted suicide being legally offered and in some cases encouraged, the stigma of killing oneself is greatly reduced. Suicide becomes much more normal and accepted in our culture, and a lot of people need a way out of life. Also, many people probably don't kill themselves, despite being miserable and having no realistic hope that their situation will change, just due to fear of death. If dying were treated as just another thing that happens, like if assisted suicide were a widely available, destigmatized, and sometimes encouraged option, then some of that fundamental fear of death would abate, but not all of it of course.
So physician assisted suicide is far more reliable and is guaranteed not to be very painful, just a poke with a needle. Also, with assisted suicide being legally offered and in some cases encouraged, the stigma of killing oneself is greatly reduced. Suicide becomes much more normal and accepted in our culture, and a lot of people need a way out of life. Also, many people probably don't kill themselves, despite being miserable and having no realistic hope that their situation will change, just due to fear of death. If dying were treated as just another thing that happens, like if assisted suicide were a widely available, destigmatized, and sometimes encouraged option, then some of that fundamental fear of death would abate, but not all of it of course.
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