>>82383389
>That's retarded, no one in their right mind could want that
You don't know some people's situations. They could be in a literaly hellish situation that would not be solved in their lifetimes, they could be addicts with no other way out, sick, they can be treated as slaves in a sweatshop, they can be wagies with nowhere to advance in life, they can have mental illness that makes mere existing an exusting near-impossible effort, they can be at their wits end. But it can also be on a whim as far as I am concerned. Your life and body are your own to do whatever you want with, including drugs or even suicide; and society should cater to that fact and basic freedom. There won't be any damage to society and its structure if a few people went dead over personal reasons. My point, you are free to make the decision, whatever your reasons are. That is a freedom a lot of selfish people want to take away, cause it doesn't fit with their world views and cause "life is so much better, bro. Your mom will be sad, bro", sometimes it isn't, and that's ok.
>I will drag them kicking and screaming through life until it concludes in a normal way
A seemingly noble but selfish and naive notion. Sometimes a person just needs the right treatment, yeah. But some people want to die, that's ok, that's their honest right as indipendent adults who are deserving of their freedom and accountable to their actions. Hunter S. Thompson shot himself in the head cause he was getting too old for personal comfort and that's a valid reason. If anything, assisted suicide should be more prevalent in western societies as it truly is the last freedom and act of indipendence a person has on offer sometimes. It should be like in Onions Green, where there's gov approved euthanasia where they make the proccess easier on the person and use their body to make food for the larger population thus making them useful to society (well, maybe not the making them into food part; but you get the point, anyway).