There's a bridge in Toronto, near where I used to live, that was infamous for people jumping off of it.
The city ended up putting a wire fence up because it was over a busy highway. You could still get through but it was much harder. The number of people jumping dropped to near zero and the overall suicide rate for the city went down.
Most suicidal people are temporarily depressed. If you make it easy to kill themselves, they will. If it's hard, they give up because they're depressed. Later they don't feel depressed so they don't even try at all.
Making suicide easy and painless only encourages people to make hasty decisions that hurt everyone who cares about them.
It is, and completely ignored by this technology. The inventors must be aware of this if they have any interest in assisted suicide, the fact that they are ignoring it can only be insidious.
There's a bridge in Toronto, near where I used to live, that was infamous for people jumping off of it.
The city ended up putting a wire fence up because it was over a busy highway. You could still get through but it was much harder. The number of people jumping dropped to near zero and the overall suicide rate for the city went down.
Most suicidal people are temporarily depressed. If you make it easy to kill themselves, they will. If it's hard, they give up because they're depressed. Later they don't feel depressed so they don't even try at all.
Making suicide easy and painless only encourages people to make hasty decisions that hurt everyone who cares about them.
Definitely demonic.
Depression makes you not want to exert effort into anything.
Therefore, to save the lives of the depressed, make there be some minor effort involved.
It's a fairly basic and yet remarkably effective strategy.
It is, and completely ignored by this technology. The inventors must be aware of this if they have any interest in assisted suicide, the fact that they are ignoring it can only be insidious.