I need help passing a new law (The Right to Die)

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I figured I might as well post this here since a lot of people were trying convince me how much my life will suck while I'm living on SSI...
I did a video about this last month too:



I had another dream that died in Arkansas. (if you wanna know the signinigance behind Arkansas then read this thread: http://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=341183 )

but definitely not the same way in that scenario...

I had a dream that I was still living with my adoptive parents back in Wisconsin, and I woke up one morning and these strangers were sitting at the kitchen table with my adoptive parents, and they told me that the USA passed a new law that gives mentally ill people who can't work the option to be euthanized/put to sleep voluntarily. They gave me a document and they said that if i signed it they would have me euthanized.

I signed the document But then i told them i DID NOT want to die in the state of Wisconsin at all, because I hated it there and didn't want to die there.

So instead, they called a taxi and drove me down to a hospital outside of Jonesboro Arkansas. I walked inside a hospital room which had this song playing on the radio, Cruel Summer by Bananarama, the song that always reminded me of the time I almost died in Arkansas:


Then they stuck a needle in my arm and had me euthanized and put to sleep and I died.


I now want to pass this law for real in the USA. there's countries in Europe which already do have a law like it. I remember reading one news story that a woman in Europe was put to sleep/Euthanized voluntarily due to mental trauma from being sexually abused: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3583783/Sex-abuse-victim-20s-allowed-choose-euthanasia-Holland-doctors-decided-post-traumatic-stress-conditions-uncurable.html

But the only thing is, I have no idea where to start with trying to get this law passed. I know it'll take a really long time, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on how I can do this?


I honestly don't really want to die right now, things in my life aren't bad enough for that yet, but when my luck runs out, I want that option to be available. suicide is a horrible and painful and very difficult thing to do, and I don't want to have to do that to myself.

I believe people should be given the right to die with dignity.

Yes of course, You can do anything to or for yourself as long as it doesn't harm any others.

This being said, you should have a damn good reason for doing so. I am currently going through the process of apllying for the process of Voluntary Euthanasia, not because of some quibble over spending my life of SSI, (yeah, it is a depressing outlook) but because I was diagnosed with Stage IV-B Colorectal Cancer, which is a Terminal diagnosis. The hospital that I was diagnosed at was trying to get me into an Oncology Institute to undergo possibly years of Chemotherapy, ( Chemo drugs are essentially poisonsin their own right) and hIgh dosage Radiation treatment. --For a return that even after 5 years of this,( to be paid for at Taxpayer expense) that I would have about a 15% chance of not dying.

I talked to the Oncologist that was assigned to me me and she laid on the beauty of the whole process of this, and never once did she, or any of the other the previous doctors give me any info about my prognosis, with Chemo treatment, or without. I confronted her and she was quite taken aback by my questions. She tried to steer me away from the downside that I had a high probability of dying even after alll of the chemo and Radiation treatment.

She did tell me that I would probably be dead in 6 months without it. So basically a slow death with all of the chemo and radiological treatment effects, or an agonizing death where I would die in misery in a hospital bed with tubes and IV's going in and out of me, or the quickest and least financially damage to all, voluntary euthanasia.

I support both of you.

When we're ready to go (for whatever reason) there should be a compassionate and painless way to go.

Seems there are a lot of societal norms that disagree, though.....I'm not sure why or how long it will take to overcome them.

OK, I am not trying to be mean here, but you sound like you need someone to give it to you straight, so here goes:

You need to stop doing this. This is nothing other than a ploy for attention because other posters aren't telling you what you want to hear, and are telling you (the truth) that living life on SSI is not realistic. So, instead of growing up and taking responsibility for your own life, you want to pass a law so you can use taxpayer money to kill yourself? That will never fly, you do not have a terminal illness. You just don't want to put the work in to find ways to live with your diagnosis.

There is a huge difference between having an untreatable, terminal physical illness and choosing assisted suicide for that reason, and having completely treatable (and in the case of BPD, curable) illnesses that make life harder for you.

You are literally going to put all this effort so you can try and pass a law to make euthenasia for mental conditions allowed in the USA (not gonna happen), when you could put this effort toward recovery and managing your illnesses. You want to be a victim, plain and simple.

As someone with Borderline, people like you are what make recovery so difficult for people who want to put the work in. You are contributing to the stigma others suffer, when it comes to both ASD and BPD.

In my DBT courses, we learned the following about living with BPD: Other people might have caused the problems in your life, but YOU still have to fix them. Until you realise that, you won't get better.

And if you have no interest in getting better, own that. Don't blame your disorders when the rest of us are working our asses off to overcome the same things you have.

In reality, one has to make less than about $400 a month in order to maintain their full SSI benefits.

& I thought this site would full of people who would understand my mental conditions....

God I was wrong....

whatever.

Is it really that big of an Issue in the US you have easy access to guns. I am going to have to kill myself when I can no longer live independently this is something I dread I think I will probably jump in front of a train hopefully this will be in at least 30 years time and society would have progressed enough by then that legal euthanasia is accessible.