NEVER
Life is able to give us a very rough ride at times, just suck it up and keep going, whats fixable try and fix, whats not try and forget.
Only time I would consider suicide is if I catch a terminal illness and it gets to that point where I see a shitty short/medium term future ahead and being dependent, in pain...etc. I would choose to bow out and quit whilst Im ahead.....I would be called a cruel person if I let my dog die in pain for days and weeks on end when he has no hope of recovery...why should I not award myself the same dignified and humane outcome for this situation.
Agreed.
Euthanasia, for all it's conjecture, has a place in society.
Was it not honorable for the Samurai to commit seppuku? Of course it was, rather than bring dishonor and shame to their house.
In that vein, it should be a man's choice to take an honorable death in the way he sees fit.
And if it were a physical illness, then I would like to bow out gracefully on my own dime, in my own time.
I would like to think I would have my family's support on this one.
But I can honestly say, if I had a terminal illness that was crippling my body with unbridled pain, and my daughter said to me "daddy, I just want you to stay alive as long as you can", then I would grit my teeth through every last one of my agonizing days to fulfill her wish and give her every minute I could. It would only be with full support of those I love and care about, that I would then consider euthanasia. In this way, I can stick handle around the idea of selfishness. Those who I did not consult, were people whose opinion did not matter to me enough to tip a life-and-death decision. They can rant and rave all they like. I'll be dead, and I won't care when I'm buried and gone. And my family will have understood the risks in supporting the decision, if it were to be so. This is something we would most definitely discuss and take our time with.
If even one person decides they don't like it, then I'm going to live out whatever days my broken body will give me.