The Madness of Assisted Suicide
A couple months ago, a 29-year-old Dutch woman named Zoraya ter Beek went viral for her effort to seek state assisted suicide. Her reasoning being that she was very depressed and there was no helping her mental state. She was also autistic.
Last month, her suicide was finally approved, and yesterday, she was finally… put down (couldn’t find a better term) by the procedure. Her boyfriend was very supportive of her choice, no I’m not kidding.
The Debacle
I’m going to come out and say it: I do not support assisted suicide. I think that it is morally wrong, and we should try to preserve life at all costs. That this sort of thing has even gained traction in the past few years astounds me.
So here we have this very young woman who had mental health problems. She was told that there was nothing that could be done to alleviate them. You know what? Fair. Not all mental health issues can be alleviated. That is not what I will be arguing.
What I am going to argue is that we shouldn’t recommend suicide as a solution. As a child who went to public school, I was always taught that we should try to help those who are suicidal. Now we are expected to support the concept of suicide?
You know what’s going to happen, right? You are going to have a bunch of people who make money off of this stuff lobbying for healthcare providers to recommend state assisted euthanasia as an option.
Seriously, many of the people who support this sort of thing because it is new and “progressive” or whatever warped justification they have for it are the same people who criticize healthcare systems around the world for being money laundering schemes. I’m not saying they aren’t, but surely such big brained people should see the big problem here.
We already have an issue with the medical system recommending drugs with financial incentives, who is to say that assisted suicide won’t fall into the same trap? I am calling it now. Give it five to ten years.
We are going to see a massive influx of mentally unwell people dying off because the system thought it would be better to give up on them than to give them the help that they need. The institutions and powers that be will then tell us how it is a good thing.
The worst part about all of it is that if you are a family member there is nothing you can do. An adult made their decision and unless you are willing to lock them in the basement, they will most likely go through with it. Once people are convinced and determined, it is difficult to change their minds.
What boggles my mind is how these things were even greenlit in the first place. A decade ago, something like this would be seen as unthinkable. A horrible idea made up by people who hate the mentally ill. Cartoonishly evil.
How it would have gone down ten years ago:
“Hey man, how are we gonna solve the mental health crisis in this country?”
“Just kill them bro.”
“…what is wrong with you?”
How it went down during the past couple years:
“Hey man, how are we gonna solve the mental health crisis in this country?”
“Just kill them bro.”
“…actually that is a reasonable idea.”
“I was just kidding bro.”
“We just call it assisted suicide!”
“…bro.”
And here we are in the year of our Lord 2024, doing just that and justifying it. Then we wonder how some of the worst historical atrocities could have occurred, and that if we lived back then, we would stop it.
I’ve heard the justifications.
“Well what did you want her to do, live her life suffering?”
“Would you rather she killed herself in a violent manner?”
“Her life, her choice.”
Then what is the point of it all? Why even try to prevent suicide at all? Whenever someone is feeling depressed, we may as well hand them a gun and say goodbye. It wouldn’t be any different than what is currently happening.
I’ve heard other people say that the process for these assisted suicides is very long and they consist of regularly asking the person if they wish to reconsider. I don’t care, the fact that it is even an option in the first place is wicked.
Heading back to Zoraya’s case, what was her boyfriend thinking? Man of the year right there, you allowed your girlfriend to kill herself. I cannot even begin to comprehend the mental gymnastics here, if that were my girlfriend I would be doing the opposite of supporting her decision.
Conclusion
We need to take a step back in the West and reevaluate what it is we are doing. I know that the main motivator of this is corruption in the medical industry, but it doesn’t help when you have a lot of people convinced that this corruption is justified.
There needs to be a great reset (for lack of a better term) of all institutions across the board. We cannot live in a society that justifies the self-harm and death of its people. There must not be a normalization of suicidal behavior that is enabled by the government.
As someone who knows people who struggle with depression and other mental health disorders, I condemn these practices in the strongest form. I do not want any of my friends or loved ones to fall victim to pro-suicide propaganda.