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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by lisper on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:24PM (#18347061)
There is a less cynical explanation: if you make it too easy for people to kill themselves then you run the risk of old people being coerced into taking that option by, for example, greedy relatives eyeing their inheritance.
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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by magicnubs on Thursday November 01, 2018 @12:10PM (#18355406)
And it could be seen as a perverse incentive for governments to make it too easy for people who are an economic and budgetary burden to end their own lives.
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