There is no torture quite like wanting to die but being unable to commit suicide

It is the final pain on top of all the rest. It is a misery so profound yet those who legislate are deaf to it.

To deny assisted suicide is to leave a person in intense pain, one for whom mental healthcare has failed, and consigns them to a living hell until they manage to kill themselves.

It is easier to see assisted suicide for people with degenerative, painful and terminal physical illnesses. This narrow definition is a small part of the spectrum of reasons someone might want to die. Many of the psychological reasons are the result of too much mental anquish, a pain harder to salve than physical pain.

When the limited mental health and social care options fail what's left is an individual who has an inalieanable right to an assisted suicide. It is important because no one should have to live through the torture that is wishing for death as escape from a shitty existence but continuing to live.

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