When I was 20 I wanted to kill myself. Thank whomever that assisted suicide isn't a socially acceptable practice because I could have easily gone into some clinic and had someone kill me without my family knowing.
That's just patently untrue. There's an enormous gap between the situations in which the author advocates for (and laws in various states and countries permit) assisted suicide and a society that allows you to walk into a clinic and kill yourself for any reason. The laws in California [0], Washington, Oregon, and Vermont [1], for example, require that the patient is mentally competent and is terminally ill with less than six months to live as certified by two doctors. A suicidal person won't meet the first requirement, much less the second.
No, not easily. And if you want to die there are very many ways that are as easy or easier.
Assisted dying has should have some safeguards built in - "does this person have mental ill health?", "has this person had access to a variety of good quality MH treatment?"
If anything the delays built in (waiting for an appointment) are somewhat protective.
I own a car. I can trivially turn it around on the highway, turn of the light and floor the gas (going against traffic). It would almost certainly kill everybody else in the car I hit, but it would also kill me - and my family wouldn't know.
If I didn't own a car I could just rent one.
Or I could throw myself in front of a train or truck.
In short there are lots of ways to die right now, but they nearly always fuck up somebody else too - why not accept reality and make it so that people who wants to die can go do that safely?
You may want to actually read the article. The options aren't "no euthanasia at all" or "anyone can request euthanasia at any time and get it immediately". If some line of reasoning leads you to conclude that the Swiss are insane, well, then maybe you should consider the option that you're the problem, not the majority of Swiss that support their legislation.
