Humanities & Cultures

This would set a few precedents that are potentially pretty dangerous. As someone else mentioned, there's the issue of essentially being a potential route to pushing people toward suicide when treatment options are too expensive. But there's also the problem of mental health professionals getting on board with their patients' suicidality.

Therapists are often one of the better protections against hurting oneself when things get bad. They ostensibly should be helping you through the hard times so that when you get to a better state and you're a little more lucid you'll be glad you didn't off yourself.

But if they looked at it as a legit treatment option? Like, if I'm in the middle of a bad patch and thinking about killing myself, the last thing I need is a therapist trying to set me up with an appointment to get it done. If anything I'd want someone to be the voice of reason and try to represent the interests of all the future mes that aren't there at that moment to speak for themselves.

I've been grateful for the people who've saved my life when things looked dark. The last thing I'd want is for one of those people to help me figure out how to die.