This is part of the Land of the Free series.

Suicide should be legal and you should be able to euthanize yourself as it is your body and you should be able to do what you will with it even if that means suicide. No one should be able to tell how long you should live for. If you want to commit suicide, you can do so by a licensed doctor by following just a few terms:

• You must be sober of any drugs that would that alter your conscience. For example, heroin, alcohol, shrooms, etc.
• You must have two doctors sign off that you completely sober.
• You must wait x months (x should be voted on by the people in a majority rule) from your request to be euthanized before you are given the drugs so you can think about it just in case you do end up changing your mind.
• You must euthanize yourself with the drugs provided by the doctors at the hospital and no one else can euthanize you. Not even the doctor (unless you are physically incapable in which a person of your choice will administer the drugs), and if anyone does mercy kill you, it should be treated as murder.

If you want to commit suicide because you are, or have been in great pain and will die from the disease within y months (y being anytime shorter than x [the time voted on above]) than you should have different terms to abide by:

• Two doctors must agree that you have less than y months to live
• You must wait z (z being another amount of time, less than y, which also should be voted on) from your request to be euthanized before you are given the drugs so you can think about it.
• You must euthanize yourself with the drugs provided by the doctors at the hospital unless you are physically incapable. Same as above.

If you try to commit suicide yourself however and fail, you will not be required to see a therapist or be required to do anything. If you do seek treatment, under the 3 Fundamental Rights of Every Human Being you can receive free treatment and medication.

         

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