THE END OF LIFE CHOICE REFERENDUM - 4

 CHANGE IN RISK OVER TIME

The primary reason behind going through all these details was to emphasize that every type of suicidality can respond to interventions, as well as undergo natural variation with a change in social circumstances. Clinicians see this all the time when, even after the most serious suicidal attempts, once people recover many are relieved that their attempt was unsuccessful. As one patient surviving a near-lethal suicide attempt said to me, she realized how lucky she was to have survived because otherwise she would have missed all the milestones of her 6-year-old daughter as she would have gone through all the different stages in her life.

The patient I had mentioned in the first post had changed her mind also and said that she wanted to die naturally so that she could spend as much times as possible, with her family. That is why even in countries where assisted suicide has been legalized, there is a built-in time-lag or cooling-off period between making a request for euthanasia and the administration of the lethal injection, so that people have a chance to have a change in mind in case they develop second thoughts which is not uncommon. In the proposed Act, according to the different commentaries I have read, it can be from 2-4 days, which seems unduly short.

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