Improvement to mental healthcare would be removing the restrictions of medical assistance in dying and making it similar to a person who is going to die from suicide when they’re being honest about how the illness is forcing it upon them.
The part you quoted from me is what research show in regarding gender dysphoria that goes untreated past puberty. There isn’t much positivity for the latter and drugging a person so their perception changes isn’t necessarily what I think is much different than suicide of the person. Similar to how in the past conversion therapy was used to destroy the person and create a new person.
Anyway I don’t believe I’m being nihilistic and I can righteously think it’s people putting their own ideology first in refusing my friend the ability to have her wishes granted.
Suicide is not some inevitable, uncontrollable end to any disease or illness. It isn't cancer, or some other form of terminal illness. It is an active choice made by those who want to end their own life.
If suicide and prescription drugs are synonymous as they both result in the literal and figurative death of the ill person, would it not be better to choose the 'death' the allows the person to continue to live?
It is nihilistic if you, and your coworker, believe that past a certain age threshold (or any other arbitrary measure) a disease/mental condition is untreatable and the best alternative is suicide.
>It is an active choice made by those who want to end their own life
That is your ideology being forced upon persons who desire death. There is no proof that people have free will and every death (suicide or death by cancer) is a natural death if free will doesn't exist.
> would it not be better to choose the 'death' the allows the person to continue to live?
That sounds like a worse fate if I was in the situation.
> It is nihilistic if you, and your coworker, believe that past a certain age threshold (or any other arbitrary measure) a disease/mental condition is untreatable and the best alternative is suicide.
That is just a forceful opinion upon labeling others and who just believe they should have will over their own death when the pain is unbearable. Her case is suffering from puberty and being conditioned throughout her life to be a certain way. She missed her youth, early adulthood and shouldn't be forced to live in today's society where she is constantly reminded of the abuse. She believes the best solution is suicide for herself. I only agree with her and think people should have authority over their own death after long talks with her.
That's a fallacy you're constructing. I have known persons who are into nihilism and they would argue the same that nothing matters with free will. I don't believe the exchange was meaningless because my friend will be reading these replies and have more experience in conversing with doctors. She get's similar responses to what you convey when arguing her position. Btw if you're downvoting my responses on an other account. You're extremely childish if so. The only reason I assume this is the case because the other is reply old enough to where I assume it's the case. People are not supposed to be using the downvoting system in a childish manner is what I believe is true for hackernews.
The part you quoted from me is what research show in regarding gender dysphoria that goes untreated past puberty. There isn’t much positivity for the latter and drugging a person so their perception changes isn’t necessarily what I think is much different than suicide of the person. Similar to how in the past conversion therapy was used to destroy the person and create a new person.
Anyway I don’t believe I’m being nihilistic and I can righteously think it’s people putting their own ideology first in refusing my friend the ability to have her wishes granted.