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Its so easy for humans to die from a random accident, but very hard to deliberately end their own lives reliably and painlessly.

Keyword: Reliably.

I could jump from a bridge, but just breaking my legs and end up paralyzed and its even more depressing.

Same thing with running into oncoming traffic.

So sad...

Earth is a torture chamber.

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  • These seem like arbitrary rules. Most random accidents don't reliably kill people and are also painful. You're comparing a tiny subset of random accidents to all intentional suicide methods as if they are or should be somehow similar.

  • On the other hand, people pull off some of the crazies stunts and accidents without getting killed.

    Let's say you're flying on plane that has bomb onboard. The explosion shreds the plane to a million pieces in mid-air and everyone dies... right? Not necessarily.

  • This is not very well thought out. People survive accidents all the time, far more than they die from them. It is confirmation bias that makes you feel like it is easy to die from one because people only focus on the bad ones. Normal injuries and close calls fly under the radar.

  • There's hope, though. Although stalled by the current civil liberties regression phase we're going through in the States, and the rise of fascism globally, in some States and some countries assisted suicide is legal. There's a wonderful product called the Sarco Pod, developed by an Australian, that performs euthanasia by nitrogen, which is one of the best methods of suicide. It's not currently widely available, but hopefully services offering it will start popping up. We have to get through this rough patch, first.

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