Suicide

[John_fi_Skye]

A lot of great posts on this fred.

If I had no loved ones, as soon as I became decrepit and useless, I'd want to be painlessly dead. But as some posters have said it's the effect of a suicide on others that complicates things. But I definitely don't want my life to be prolonged till I'm demented and sitting like a vegetable in a nursing home. I'd be quite happy to sign a bit of paper right now, placing my fate in the hands of people who can take that decision for me. A couple of stiff whiskies, and then painless death (happy to do it myself, or have somebody else do it for me), rather than becoming a useless, pointless burden.

But I'm in the fortunate position (touch wood!) of never having had a mental illness. I was recently speaking to a good friend about depression, and I appreciate that it gives an unhealthy outlook, which would certainly be a complicating factor in this issue.