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Seems like a good thing for situations like this. One big hurdle that needs addressing if it is to be legal (in a widespread way) is how to determine if someone can make that decision.

A concern here is coercion. Is the person of sound mind and do they want to go through with it. Is there outside influence pushing for this outcome? Is there an inheritance that family members are seeking? Parents that don't want to be parents, ie what age is okay to be able to invoke this legal right.

It looks like this is how it is currently deploying throughout states is for people w/terminal illness etc. where there is a lot less doubt about what decision they wish to make. This is a good starting point for informing policy about making laws like this more available/widespread if needed.

for sure, i'm saying it's a shame it has to be this way

"certain groups of people" are awful and i wish they did not vote

>it's my goddamn body, if i want to die, see ya

you see thats where you are wrong kiddo. not to certain groups of people.

otherwise abortion, gender affirmation, lgbtq and every other hot button issues wouldn't be an issue in the first place.

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Chinese cheating? I thought that was Germany’s game🤔

If you are trying to go to Burlington VT, Albany is a 3 hour drive!

Yeah, I don’t expect Vermont to be a fairytale land that solves all my problems, but from all the research I’ve done, it seems like it’s possibly the best state in the country for me, possibly best state full stop :-)

My mom has terminal cancer and I have very mixed feelings about this. One is selfish, which is that she hold out as long as possible so I still get to talk to her, and the other is whatever is easiest for her; which is ultimately more important to me.

I feel like this is something easy for someone to come up with an inaccurate moral judgement if they haven't experienced these circumstances for themselves.

What an incredibly brave woman.

A big part of it is religion, which in my opinion, is just a tool some people use to shield themselves from the fact that life inevitably ends for us all. My friend was 100% convinced that there is no God, no afterlife, no nothing. So it was incredibly infuriating to him when people insisted he go on living for their religious morality. It's just so vile that society's religious delusion can impact the lives of others in such ways.

So sorry your friend had to deal with that. Feels like a lot of suffering in the world exists just because people don't want to update their understanding of something or empathize with another's experience.

The elite wouldn't have any wage slaves if they all checked out early.

I almost moved there but my son didn't want to leave his school. Good thing because I met my wonderful boyfriend here 💕 I do like it down there, though.

You're very welcome. It's a wonderful place and I wouldn't live anywhere else.

Of course we have our problems like any other place.

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Thank you for your reply, I’ve been doing my research and I still need to visit, but it helps talking to people who know the area :-)

I'm from Texas and currently working/living in Brattleboro and it seems to be pretty progressive also.

My digital camera set off the sensor once, so the dude completely unpacked my carryon. I’m a ballerina and was on my way to ballet stuff, so I think I had like 9 pairs of pointe shoes in there to unpack. I remember people chuckling as they passed me, and I thought, yep. Deadly dancer over here.

Also Americans who can afford Healthcare should be able to make that choice for themselves, too.

Thank you very much for your reply. I’ve been doing a lot of research, and I definitely have to visit during the depths of winter, so see if a southerner can handle actual winter, lol, but it helps talking to people in a position to know :-)

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My friend wrote a book called Two Arms and a Head. It was his real life story about how he became a paraplegic after a motorcycle crash. In the book he rages about the stigma of wanting to die. People didn't want to hear it, so they would just gaslight him and pretend nothing was wrong. He suffered so much and in the end he killed himself. He died all alone in secret. Would've been much better to be able to say goodbye and send him out with a bang, but no. People who are too scared to face mortality force it on the rest of us. It's so sickening. Probably one of the cruelest things you can do to someone is forcd them to live when they're suffering a nightmare reality they can't escape. I hate people sometimes.

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society is build on the misery of the underclasses and we can't let them know about the cheat code to escaping it 🙃