alt Hacker NewsThat's not a solution, but a stopgap measure for the fact we can't do better. A stopgap measure I would prefer for myself though; not arguing the fact that it's the least bad option.
But there's is something I don't understand and I can't ask ChatGPT for fear of them closing my account and reporting me to the police, the health authorities and the Inquisition, but I thought that the repercussions for dying on your own terms came in the form of stigma? Is there anything the law does to your surviving relatives? Also, at least in USA it's legal and relatively simple to own a high caliber weapon, which to me beats all the options legally available in the rest of the world.
In my country, Mexico, the law doesn't recognize euthanasia, just suicide/homicide. Suicide of course is not a crime, because what are they going to do, jail you? Assisting suicide in any way is murder, though.
There are still repercussions for the people you leave behind. I can recall these:
- Any insurance is void
- Inheritance can be complicated if you can argue that the suicide was encouraged. It becomes premeditated murder.
- I think debt, specially if it's considerable, is handled different that natural death, that voids any debt.