[–] Leon_FURIOUS ago
Can't ever say what someone else 'should' do, we can't ever know exactly what's going on in their life. We can only give advice on what we would do, based on our experiences.
Your question implies if there should be a way for them to go about it medically, kinda like the Death with Dignity laws some states adopted around the turn of our current century. Most opposition to that involved the situation you're describing: depressed people seeking a "long-term situation to a short-term problem," as I've heard it stated. But a lot of that is bullshit. Governments will never condone voluntary assisted suicide. There will never be a legal clinic that one could just roll into and be administered death. No doctor would do it because it would violate the Hypocratic oath. Also, our view on "suicide" is largely western. We don't have a culture hair-kari or women that kill themselves when their husbands die, or anything else. Some cultures have believed that we harbor a piece of the universe in us, and the killing ourselves unselfishly releases that bit for the rest of humanity to share. I've heard that suicide is supposedly illegal, but I've never really heard anything more about that that isn't apocryphal. So, should we drop the (selfish) notion that people who commit suicide are themselves selfish, or were only acting in a moment of duress and likely not in their right minds? Yes. Is suicide largely the concern of those who do it and we can never know the conditions or frame of mind that they were actually in when they did it? Yes.
tl;dr- Suicide is the province of the suicidal.
[–] Cum_control ago
No. Life is fucking awesome and if someone is depressed they should be relieved of all duties and sent on a trip around the world to show them why they should be happy and why life is worth living.
[–] GreatWhiteNorth ago
No.