DIGNITAS-Forum

Indeed, ever since i was a child i thought that society should provide a "tanatorium", something similar to Dignitas, for people who persistently decided to leave this world. Euthanasia organizations want to keep in force the interdiction of suicide for healthy people, but allow suicide for unhealth...

It's ironical that religious people condemn suicide with the argument of the "sanctity of life" - indeed, they think life is only sacred in times of PEACE. But such times were rather the exception in the history of monotheistic religions - ever since the time of the Bible (whose text is half full of...

Indeed, from a 17-years old suicidal teenager I became a 20 years old suicidal young man, then a 26-years old who wanted to commit suicide, and now i am a 33 years old man who still wants to commit suicide. I am alive because i dont have the courage to commit suicide, because i am afraid i would fai...

I believe that the criterion for legalizing suicides should be only one: the PERSISTENCE of the suicidal wish, not illness. The desire should be persistent, let's say for more years: it should not be impulsive. Arguments: 1. who are you (or anyone) to judge the quantity of psychological pain someone...

In the hope that the ideas of Thomas Szasz might interest someone: Szasz (who has been a lifelong critic of psychiatry and of the concept of "mental illness") wrote in 2005 a book arguing for the freedom to die, yet opposed to Euthanasia as medicalization of this freedom. His book can be bought here...

I read that Dignitas is next to a brothel and that the maire was angry about this, as this vicinity gives his town a bad reputation. I believe that the location is very inspired, as it is a metaphor of human existence. Indeed, what could be more appropriate than to put Eros and Thanatos one near the...

Ich versuche, die Woerte von Herrn Minelli zu fortsetzen. Es gibt auch eine newsgroup mit derselbe Gedanke, a.s.h. (alt.suicide.holiday), jederman kann einloggen

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.suic ... l=en&pli=1

aber es ist nur in Englisch

vielen danke,
laurian

What do you mean by an "in-depth report written by a psychiatrist"?

How many pages should it be?

I am sorry if this problem was already answered in German, but i can understand only English and French

thank you
klsaurian

The freedom to commit suicide, which has always appeared to me as the most fundamental freedom of every human being - is for many people a freedom to LIVE a better life : for indeed i have known many people who are not convinced they want to die, but want to have the means to a peaceful end availabl...

I would also like to draw the attention of the members of this forum to the ashbusstop site: http://ashbusstop.org/sitemap.html In my opinion, the quality of the material stored on it is very high. It is the best perspective on suicide from a pro-choice point of view (But other people might have oth...