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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

For the last two months I’ve been seriously considering taking my own life. What holds me back is that I’ll severely fuck up my loving family, my mum, dad and brothers and my girlfriend/ex-girlfriend (it’s complicated). It would hurt them so much. If it wasn’t for them I would have already done it.

So what I want to know is why shouldn’t I just end my 33 year old Swedish life right now when there’s just too much stuff to battle. Before I wanted to battle my way through this. But I can’t take this anymore. I’ve never posted something like this before. Sorry everyone. I don’t know why I did it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I hope you have someone to talk to about this. Your life is worth living, the people who you don't want to hurt love you and want you in their lives even if it's complicated.

Wishing you all the best.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hey there, I'm sorry to read about these thoughts you're having. I urge you to consider using one of the services available to you in Sweden and talk to someone about it here : https://mind.se/chatt/

Wish you all the best get better man life is worth living it's all we have.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not qualified to answer this even though I want to help you. If you are considering suicide please don't. Please find a helpline and talk to someone who can help you so much better than me.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Huh. In the UK, they just put them on waiting lists until they die.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67087906

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

California and Canada have similar populations and both allow medically assisted suicide. Canada last year performed this on 20x more people. It’s well documented that many would prefer treatment to death but it isn’t provided as an option due to cost. This is eugenics

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Got a source for these numbers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-canadians-adopting-assisted-death-22-times-more-than-americans

"In Canada, which has a smaller population than California, physicians or nurse practitioners directly ended the lives of 31,664 people between 2016 and 2021. That compares to just 3,344 in California."

This is an opinion piece article and I'm not sure where they're pulling numbers (I only had time to skim through it)

But if true, let's add a loose and relatively subjective term like "addiction" to the legislation and these numbers will go up.

Maybe this is how the government was planning to tackle the housing problem lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

That's a Postmedia Network owned paper. They've got a conservative bias, best known for that Tory rag the National Post.

I don't think I'd trust unsourced statistics from an opinion piece in a Postmedia Network paper myself.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Both have state-provided rehab.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's fucked

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I honestly think this would not be a bad way to go once I retire. Just develope a fentanyl addiction and move to Canada for a medically assisted OD. A lot better than dealing with the coming water wars and dying like an animal while desperately fighting for survival.

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