Why is Denmark the happiest country in the world?

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162. Or maybe people just decide they've had enough?

Why is suicide necessarily a bad thing? It's a choice people make about their life and their bodies. No one here says abortion is "bad" or that it's symptomatic of a mental disorder. It's a personal choice that no one should have to justify. Yet making the choice to terminate one's life is always something grievous and horrible that needs to be prevented at all costs.

Regardless of what Denmark's mental health system is like, maybe there are people who decide that they don't want to have to live with something that can never be cured. Mental illness is stigmatized the world over. It's inhumane in my opinion to force people to live in such a way that they, themselves, feel they will never reach their full potential or are "broken" or "defective" or "crippled" somehow.

I believe medical suicide is legal there also. People may be going to the suicide clinics (perhaps not even for mental problems), and that bumps up the rate. I fully support these being legal and publicly subsidized, just like pot dispensaries, abortion clinics and sex work. I feel the same way about suicide as I do about abortion: you don't like it, don't do it. Don't restrict someone else's right to bodily autonomy or make them feel bad for making whatever choice they make.

In the words of the great philosopher Paul, live and let die.