CMV: Assisted suicide should be available for those without terminal illnesses.

I have no statistics or data to share, I can only speak from personal experience....we all have sad stories, so I won't get into the particularities of mine other than to say that I had a very horrific childhood. I never told anyone how badly I wanted to kill myself every. single. day.....I had a plan too. It was a carefully thought out plan. Looking back now, it's amazing to me that I never actually followed through. I was ready. Ready for the pain and constant torture to stop. Nothing else mattered. Nothing. In some sick and demented way, the process of going through each step I'd need to complete to set myself free in my head was just enough to stop myself from following through, at least for one more day. I eventually got to the point where I hated myself for being such a coward that I couldn't even follow through on setting myself free. I'd get closer and closer to fulfilling my goal, right there, but I just never could seem to make myself fully commit, basically out of fear that I'd go to my "forever sleep" right before my life was about to get better. That's really the only reason I never followed through. I'm not sure how I never lost all hope in a better life, because there really wasn't much worse that could have happened to me. It took me decades to get to the point now where I can even talk about this a little bit (thanks to the somewhat anonymity of the internet.) I'd be lying if I said my life is a "Happily Ever After" but I've learned that perception really is your reality. I have wonderful people in my life who truly love me. My past still comes out in strange ways that I sometimes struggle to deal with, but I just keep putting one foot in front of the other now and remind myself how much I have to be grateful for in my life now. In my darkest of times-that's what gets me through. If assisted suicide had been an option for me, I can honestly say that I would not have hesitated, it just makes the whole process that much more socially accepted. I also lived through a suicide of someone very close to me....one of the only someone's in my life at a young age that was kind and loving and protective of me. His pain was over, but it only made mine that much worse. It's like-I took a piece of his brokenness on after that. Have you heard the song "Believer" by Imagine Dragon? The song is basically about find purpose in life through pain. That song really speaks to me, and I have to believe there are others out there who feel like I do. Terminal illness- that's where I think assisted suicide should be used. Not in other cases....or I wouldn't be here now rambling on. I would have missed so many beautiful parts of life that I never even knew I could experience. "My life, my love, my drive, it came from pain." -Imagine Dragon

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