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Re:Ecomom's Founder and CEO Jody Sherman Passes Away by philwelch on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @05:17AM (#5138821)
Among other things, the freedom to kill yourself.
Re:Ecomom's Founder and CEO Jody Sherman Passes Away by JabavuAdams on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @09:47AM (#5139668)
This is something we're going to have to grapple with as a society.

Having been suicidal, I can tell you that to my current mind-state, my suicidal mind-state's rationale was laughably bad. The dangerous thing is that it didn't feel that way at the time. It. Felt. Crystal. Clear.

I'm a smart guy. I don't want anyone telling me that my thinking is flawed. I certainly don't like the idea of someone else coercing me into treatment, given the history of abuse.

That said, suicide would have been a terrible mistake. Perversely, it would have greatly harmed some of those I was trying to protect.