The hope of the mercy and protection of assisted suicide can’t be denied

Ugh. I hate that I have to explain this. It’s such a simple and obvious truth about humane care.

But humane care doesn’t exist yet. Instead there’s psychiatric and mental health care based on the biomedical model of mental health and illness. The truth of the biopsychosocial model is yet to prevail whereas as the lie of mental illness has prevailed for centuries. The difference between these two models is not a theoretical nuance but a fundamental shift towards humane care for suicidal individuals. It’s the difference between “we care about getting whatever we want from a suicidal individual by any means necessary no matter how cruel and evil the methods or how cruel and evil the consequences are” and care.

I believe the criminalisation of assisted suicide is the epitome of “we care about getting whatever we want from a suicidal individual by any means necessary no matter how cruel and evil the methods or how cruel and evil the consequences are”. It is done devoid of even the most basic compassion.

It defines those who are so able to fail to recognise my life should never be so bad that I’m suicidal and never stop failing to care after this failure to care.

Now back to the point.

“The mercy and protection of assisted suicide”

Assisted suicide serves so many purposes and it is without equal in a few of these purposes.

But it’s to recognise what being suicidal is about that’s the path to understanding why assisted suicide is never a crime.

There are two broad categories of why suicidal individuals become suicidal and stay suicidal. These are the two most common reasons but when you dig further into specific reasons beyond these two broad categories you will find a wide diversity of the suicidal mind.

• Unbearable suffering

• Unbearable quality of life

It’s here I’m struggling to communicate and find the right words. By unbearable I mean unbearable to the point that it’s worse than death and worth dying to escape from. Even beyond these two broad categories it is obvious that what a suicidal individual is facing is worse than death by the decision to use one’s death.

I started on this blog because of something important which is mercy. But I came across something from one of the organisations in the movement to legalise assisted suicide. They’re called My Death My Decision but they used to be SOARS, The Society for Old Age Rational Suicide.

One of the reasons to die they support is the rational reason to die when the suicidal individual feels life is complete. Does this reason fall into the two broad categories?

Yes. It’s the emptiness of life that some feel lightly whereas others feel so profoundly it’s worth dying to escape from.

Many live their lives with certain fulfillment from getting married and bringing up children. They might also get fulfilment from doing a job and learning to do it well. Then when they get old they retire and their children move on. They might also lose their partner.

This happens to so many but some find the emptiness to be unbearable. Life has no purpose – again some feel this lightly and some feel it so strongly it’s worse than death. Some need purpose and meaning for life and to exist and once this is gone then life is empty and worse than death.

A hollow existence is awful for some. I’m reminded of the task of Sisyphus here and a vision of hell described in Roman times that’s the emptiness and futility of existence as well as the powerlessness of facing such punishment. (I assume the individual who came up with this version of hell was of a philosopher type.)

Rolling a boulder up a hill and getting it to the top then it rolls down to the bottom and the task begins again might not seem like hell to some. But it’s a hell I assume that’s analogous to what’s felt by those who want to end their lives because their life is complete. It’s the hollow and empty, the purposeless and meaningless, characteristic of existence that is worth dying to escape from. Some are unaffected by it and for others it’s unbearable quality of life and perhaps unbearable suffering too to keep on living for nothing.

(It’s an effect because of the devaluation of the elderly especially from the point where society and culture changed to what’s commonplace which is the “nuclear family”. When once households were three tiered – children adults and the elderly (or children parents and grandparents as another way to say it) in one house now it’s two tiered households (children and parents) then the elderly (grandparents) live separately. (For better or for worse much of my childhood I lived in a three tier household.))

(But it’s also an effect of the total and utter disregard for the mental needs of conscious beings. Because such needs when they’re failed to be met the mental phenomena fall under the cause and effect model of the biomedical model of mental health and illness and such suffering and emptiness of existence is explained as the result of a brain defect.)

But I digress…

The point is that what a suicidal individual wants to die for is inherently worse than death. That’s the statement I have about the rationality but also the respect for the diversity of the suicidal mind. More than the rationality in itself it’s the respect I have for just how horrifically beyond awful it is to become suicidal and stay suicidal irrespective of the given reason or reasons from vast amounts of personal experiences the monsters who call themselves the human race have had so generously given me. (It’s evil never satiated when making me want to die that’s what I face so I have reasons to die not just one.)

It’s from this acknowledgement of the horrific awfulness of becoming suicidal and staying suicidal that’s from where I take the meaning of “the mercy and protection of assisted suicide”. It’s from the validity of the suicidal mind from the biopsychosocial model rather than the denigration of the validity of the mind that’s what’s fundamental to the biomedical model of mental health and illness.

For example “I’m suicidal because I’m lonely” as a given reason to die. The response is that “you can always find friends” but that’s what a suicidal individual already knows but the hopelessness and powerlessness to realise this objective is what the suicidal mind faces. For example a suicidal individual who’s suicidal because they’re lonely suffers from the rejections they keep on facing when they try to find friends. There’s more to understand than the superficial based on the given reason to die but it’s essential to recognise it’s universally awful to be at the point where one wants to use one’s death. If you have never stepped forth onto the path to understanding the wide diversity of mental suffering and mental states – that’s all of you the monsters who call themselves the human race – then you see the reason to die but you don’t recognise how it’s the tip of the iceberg.

What makes suicidal individuals become suicidal and stay suicidal is we face what’s worse than death. If you take the reason to die and you don’t recognise it’s a good enough reason to die then that’s your problem. It’s your burden to try to understand the diversity of the mind and the suicidal mind. Because the truth is that what most if not all suicidal individuals face is what’s worse than death and worth dying to escape from – that’s the truth about the suicidal mind. It’s inherently worse than death when to die is the solution and if you can’t recognise why then that’s the problem with you – you have never stepped forth onto the path to understanding the wide diversity of mental suffering and mental diversity.

From this truth about how beyond horrific it is to become suicidal and stay suicidal…do I really need to explain what I mean by “the mercy and protection of assisted suicide”?

It’s worse than death. It’s worth dying to escape from. That’s the validity and rationality of the suicidal mind and if you face the same suicidal thoughts and feelings – irrespective of the reason to die – then you would choose to die.

What you think the worst thing that can happen to you is death? Don’t you have the competency to recognise there’s so many things worse than death? If you can’t recognise the cruelty in unlimited cruelties and unlimited suffering then look back throughout the history of the monsters who call themselves the human race and surely you’ll find countless examples of unlimited suffering and unlimited cruelty you’d wish you were never born to face and would die to escape from.

These things still exist. These things keep on happening even now. These things that are worse than death are made so much worse because of the denigration of the validity of the suicidal mind. That’s what has happened throughout the existence of the institution of psychiatry that the suicidal mind has the validity of the mind denigrated and dehumanised

I’ve spent years trying to find the right word or phrase or analogy to communicate the beyond awfulness of feeling suicidal. There’s no care without the recognition of what’s worse than death.

To recognise the truth about just how awful it is to become suicidal and stay suicidal it is only the beginning of care.

It’s when you have the truth to guide you you have a beginning to care and the objectives and methods and what’s top of the agenda of care.

It’s when you have the truth to guide you you must recognise these three things about being suicidal.

• It’s too cruel to happen to anyone

• It’s too cruel to inflict on anyone

• It’s too cruel to force anyone to endure*

(*Unfortunately I do believe in a degree of deprivation of liberty between decision and death but it’s still cruelty.)

It’s obvious of course but this recognition of the cruelty doesn’t prevail. “We can do whatever we want to do to a suicidal individual and it doesn’t matter how cruel or evil our methods are” is what’s prevailed for millennia and throughout the existence of psychiatry. You think this is how to protect suicidal individuals when you believe in psychiatric and mental health care but what I see is this “We can do whatever we want to do to a suicidal individual and it doesn’t matter how cruel or evil our methods are” that only makes assisted suicide even more invaluable. Because when you face “We can do whatever we want to do to a suicidal individual and it doesn’t matter how cruel or evil our methods are”you’ll recognise just how much better it is to be dead.

It’s the problem with psychiatric and mental health care because it’s based on the prevail of the biomedical model – the lie of mental illness – for centuries that asserts that suicidal individuals become suicidal and stay suicidal because we have a defective brain thus a defective mind. No compassion or empathy or understanding can be achieved from the lie of mental illness. You don’t need to have compassion or empathy or understanding for what’s the product of a brain defect.

But when you recognise the validity of the suicidal mind and the universal horrific awfulness of facing what’s worse than death and worth dying to escape from…do I have to explain what the words “the mercy and protection of assisted suicide” means?

It’s worse than death. It can’t happen and it can’t keep on happening. To have mercy for suicidal individuals is to have the protection of assisted suicide there. Because it’s worse than death to become suicidal and stay suicidal. It’s already beyond the limit to what a conscious being can endure when a suicidal individual becomes suicidal. It’s worse than death because it’s not ordinary pain but it’s pain beyond the limit to what can be endured that’s what is what you would die to escape from. It’s so beyond awful what we face that it’s worth using one’s death. To face and keep on facing the worst moments of one’s life it drives many suicidal to use one’s death because we face what’s worse than death.

(I am still desperately trying to communicate what it feels like to be beyond the limit to what I can suffer and endure. To recognise this truth – it’s never happened before.)

You become suicidal because you can’t bear what you face. It’s beyond the limit to what you can endure so obviously you who have the capacity to feel you become suicidal. Obviously death is bad but you face what’s worse than death – that’s what being suicidal is about and it’s a natural and rational response because conscious beings we have a limit to what we can endure beyond which we can’t live.

It’s from the most basic empathy and understanding you get what mean when I say about being suicidal

• It’s too cruel to happen to anyone

• It’s too cruel to inflict on anyone

• It’s too cruel to force anyone to endure

These are obvious truths but they do not prevail. But these are the truths that are the differences between the biomedical model and the biopsychosocial model. These are the truths that should be self evident but they are not what prevails. Mental health and psychiatric care is only too cruel because the severity of the suffering of suicidal individuals and the awfulness of feeling suicidal is ignored for centuries and millennia.

The prevail of psychiatric and mental health care it only makes assisted suicide even more invaluable because of the belief “We can do whatever we want to do to a suicidal individual and it doesn’t matter how cruel or evil our methods are”. Force, deprivation of liberty, imprisonment, violence*, the deprivation of the protection of human rights – there is no end to the cruelties that can be done to a suicidal individual in the name of psychiatric and mental health care and it really is a profound sense of cruelty that has no concept of what’s too cruel to do to a suicidal individual.

(* Forced injections – because the monsters who call themselves the human race have no concept of what’s too cruel to do to a suicidal individual forced injections are a method of psychiatric and mental health care. You face it. Being forced down and pinned down and forcibly injected. The only difference between rape and forced injections is the former is a sexual act. They both involve force and violence to violate and penetrate the body by force. But there’s no such thing as too cruel to do to a suicidal individual that defines psychiatric and mental health care and no one told you the difference between cruelty and care so it happens for the same reasons assisted suicide is a crime.)

This sense of cruelty that has absolutely no concept of what’s too cruel to do to a suicidal individual defines the criminalisation of assisted suicide and a sense of care in itself worth dying to escape from – I speak from vast amounts of personal experiences so generously given to me want by the monsters who call themselves the human race of all the things too cruel to do to a suicidal individual but the monsters who call themselves the human race call unlimited cruelty care.

It’s a sense of care devoid of mercy and that’s why it’s a sense of cruelty. Care with no sense of what’s too cruel to do to a suicidal individual and care without mercy is why assisted suicide can be a crime.

But it’s never a crime. Not when you recognise and understand just how beyond awful it is to become suicidal and stay suicidal. Only when you bear what suicidal individuals face lightly can assisted suicide ever be a crime.

(Look at the purpose of every single law that legislates against suffering without consent but it’s only the progress of empathy for physical suffering that has progressed across millennia. It is recognised by so many laws and legal precedents that suffering without consent is what humane laws protect against and that’s how the weak are protected. Such purposes are irrelevant when it’s mental suffering and suicidal suffering – there’s no question the answer is yes according to the values and standards of this generation of the monsters who call themselves the human race. To this day I face what only a species of monsters born and bred evil can force a suicidal individual to suffer and endure against my will and with the utter disregard for my consent I can trust the monsters who call themselves the human race to do. The cruelty of forcing someone to suffer and endure without consent and against ones will is obviously even more cruel when it’s done to a suicidal individual but you don’t recognise this do you so you only make the mercy and protection of assisted suicide even more invaluable.)

Assisted suicide is without equal in serving this protection that’s what suicidal individuals need. It is an act of mercy and care based on being affected by how suicidal individuals feel. It is based on the recognition that death is bad but it is not the worst thing that can happen.

It’s care that recognises the truth about being suicidal

• It’s too cruel to happen to anyone
• It’s too cruel to inflict on anyone
• It’s too cruel to force anyone to endure

It’s the care that recognises the limit to what a conscious being can endure is not there to be transgressed or ignored. It’s the care that recognises the truth that suicidal individuals know and that’s that while death is bad there’s things worse than death. It’s care based on the validity and rationality of the suicidal mind by the most basic empathy.

THAT’S HOW YOU PROTECT THE WEAK. AND THAT’S WHY ASSISTED SUICIDE IS NEVER A CRIME. IT’S FUNDAMENTAL TO THE PROTECTION OF THE WEAK AND IT IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF CARE BECAUSE ASSISTED SUICIDE IS ALL ABOUT MERCY.

You’d kill yourself not for the reason to die but for the suicidal thoughts and feelings. That’s the truth when you recognise the limit to what can be endured is expressed by suicidal thoughts and feelings. A line that cannot be crossed has already been crossed – that’s what becoming suicidal is all about.

Without the legalisation of assisted suicide you only have the will to ignore the limit to what can be suffered and endured. It is with respect for the beyond awfulness of feeling suicidal that’s why you recognise the mercy and protection of assisted suicide can never be a crime.

(From the biomedical model of mental health and illness all you succeed in is control and cruelty. Face what I face then you’ll recognise I don’t face care. I face “we care about getting whatever we want from a suicidal individual by any means necessary no matter how cruel and evil the methods or how cruel and evil the consequences are” – the opposite of the protection of the weak and the epitome of this is the criminalisation of assisted suicide.)

Do you care yet?

The hope of the mercy and protection of assisted suicide cannot be denied. This is obvious. While a degree of deprivation of liberty between decision and death is something I believe in the hope of the mercy and protection of assisted suicide can’t be denied.

What defines psychiatric and mental health care and the criminalisation of assisted suicide is is the will to achieve unlimited suffering and unlimited cruelty and unlimited evil. These things can only be made unlimited by denying the hope of the mercy and protection of assisted suicide.

There’s no other way to achieve the perfection of the objectives of unlimited suffering and unlimited cruelty and unlimited evil than by denying the hope of the mercy and protection of assisted suicide. The pursuit of sadistic cruelty – and clearly that’s what defines human nature – is what’s protected by denying the hope of the mercy and protection of assisted suicide.

That’s why no one can be denied the hope of the mercy and protection of assisted suicide.

This alternative post I hope makes the point about what only a species of monsters born and bred evil can do to a suicidal individual and that’s why no one can be denied the hope of the mercy and protection of assisted suicide.

It’s what I trust the monsters who call themselves the human race to do and really succeed. You live with it until it happens to someone you care about. You live with it until you face it.

You don’t have a heart. Instead you have psychiatric and mental health care and the biomedical model of mental health and mental illness. How else can killing me be the crime?