Assisted Suicide For Social Suffering

Once legalized for the terminally ill, eligibility can expand to cover non‑medical distress like loneliness or inadequate services. The article cites Canada allowing thousands of deaths for isolation or lack of palliative/disability support and Oregon’s non‑medical rationale trends. — If assisted suicide drifts toward solving social problems with death, it forces a re‑examination of end‑of‑life ethics, disability policy, and suicide prevention across health and legal systems.