It used to be that families and mental health professionals were the last bastions helping despairing people (for whatever reasons) stay in life.
These days, even that bastion is crumbling. Psychiatrists in the Netherlands and Belgium euthanize patients, and a strong minority of USA mental health professionals support the concept of “rational suicide.”
Families also support their loved ones in self-killing. In Belgium, a joint euthanasia killing of an elderly couple was arranged by their own son because, well care giving would have been difficult.
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