r/SuicideLaws

292 archived posts · Mar 2013 – Jan 2023

Grassroots activism for attempting to effectively legalize suicide for adults.

r/SuicideLaws

This is a place for like minded individuals to discuss grassroots activism for attempting to effectively legalize suicide for adults.

Created Mar 7, 2013 · restricted

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Welcome! YSK violent hospitalization increases suicide.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31162700

Violent hospitalization is violating your body & humiliating you as a "mental patient"- it's essentially a punishment for talking about suicide.

This sub is for discussing changing these laws, eg laws allowing adults (who have not broken any laws) to be locked up and forced and coerced to stay in hospitals against their expressed desires.

The ability for certain hospital employees and psychiatric and psychological professionals to forcibly keep adults inside psychiatric wards effectively makes suicide illegal.

This is a place for like minded individuals to discuss grassroots activism opposing this violence. And a place to discuss whether suicide should be legal for adults.

Free speech:

Due to civil commitment laws (and the legality of temporary psychiatric holds) voicing the intention of engaging in suicide is effectively illegal.

The result is people are taught to be silent. The state's "help" is not actually suicidal people improve their living conditions- their help is violently teaching people to be silent and not talk about suicide.

Imprisonment for talking about suicide.

Adults are effectively imprisoned in hospitals for attempting to engage in suicide and/or for discussing intention of engaging in suicide.

This sub is anti-suicide.

Suicide should not be encouraged. It should be discouraged. However, force and coercion do not help. They just give the illusion of help. Suicidal people need real help (eg better living conditions and sometimes therapy) instead of simply being locked in a cage for a few days then thrown to the street.

Stop suicide through kindness.

It will be good if all humans can experience happiness on Earth and desire to stay on Earth and if no adult wants to engage in suicide. Peaceful persuasion and kindness should be used to accomplish this, not coercion and force.

To be involved

Go to: http://votesmart.org/ to find your elected official.
Next, send all your law making representatives e-mails, phone call or letters telling them that you think that psychiatric holds and civil commitment should be illegal to use on adults.
Collaborate, network and plan here

Recommended readings

Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide by Thomas Szasz
Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine by Thomas Szasz

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