Many people believe that Euthanasia should be an option for people dying of cancer and terminal illness but I would like to argue for the right of Mental Health Patients to be able to choose Euthanasia after ten years of treatment.
The Mental Health System applies a band-aid approach to the care of its consumers. The way it stands at the moment the care of often too little too late and it leads to lives of interminable suffering. I believe that it would be humane to limit this suffering through Euthanasia.
Psychiatry, as it stands, is the Cinderella of the Health System and if people were able to choose an end to their suffering I believe that more effort would be put into giving Mental Health Patients the comprehensive care that they need instead of investing so much time and money on people that have fallen to the bottom of the cliff. Most of the Mental Health Budget is taken up with supporting people who have completely lost hope and it is such a futile way to treat the Mentally Ill. The whole System needs a revamp and an attitude shift if we are to really help the Mentally Ill in positive and constructive ways.
Most psych survivors lead happy and fulfilling lives with support of friends and family but there are those that drift through life sentence and life sentence of desperation. It is for these people that I believe we should have the Humanity to offer Euthanasia as a way to escape that interminable suffering.
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