I am in the same boat as this woman, probably got a few good months left. I am planning self deliverance with helium as soon as symptoms become significant. For now I am just checking things off my bucket list and trying to have as many adventures as possible (I am an outdoor adventurer and a software engineer).
I know a larger than life man who is now very old. Years ago, he assured me that he would go the helium route himself, as soon as he realized his mind was slipping. I wouldn't be surprised if I hear that news any day now, although it would be quite sad news. He has many grandchildren and great grandchildren, and thousands of people like me that had the pleasure of knowing him. Perhaps you two will bump into each other in a spiritual realm, and swap stories of sailing and computer history!
Laughing gas is nitrous oxide (N2O). I'm talking about normal atmospheric Nitrogen (N2). Nitrogen is available anywhere and significantly cheaper than Helium. Nitrogen can be used for welding or for brewing certain types of beer.
What an outright evil thing to say to someone. I think you do yourself, and, whatever religion you may have been indoctrinated into a great disfavour by not actually learning about your faith.
Most religions don’t actually forbid suicide anymore than they forbid a lot of other things like wearing leather pants. The fact that organised religions still make it more tabu has a lot more to do with controlling populations through faith than what is actually written in your religions texts.
And it's always about how others should live. I'm perfectly ok with people deciding for themselves that they want to live by scripture x, y or z but then they invariably want others to live by their scripture as well.
I'm not religious either, but a better analogy for a believer would be telling someone to pray or sacrifice a goat to stave off scurvy.
If you really believed some nonsense, sure you'd want to not keep it to yourself, and to tell others how to live. But that wouldn't actually be a good thing, despite the believer believing it was.
You twice used examples where a "believer" has (at least observational) evidence to support that belief.
Some of organized religion has roots in that (some of the Jewish dietary laws have practical basis), but much of the prescriptions of organized religion is preference-based rather than evidence-based.
Are you talking about the same religions that exists on planet earth? because in our earth suicide is prohibited even in many non-religious Ideologies.
It's one thing to feel with the pain of others, but another thing to glorify or defend things that shouldn't be.
The Christian bible doesn’t condemn suicide. Most of the mentions were written in a period where society didn’t combine suicide with something inherently bad. Even in the more recent parts you can see Mathew praising the suicide or Judas because it was better than living with the guilt.
Obviously organised religions have found ways around what’s actually written in the bible, and you won’t have a hard time finding Christian’s who think that not killing includes yourself. That is an interpretation though, and unless God spoke to you personally to clarify it, then it’s frankly a lot worse for you to judge someone than to leave that sort or stuff up to God. Even if you are on some misplaced quest to save souls then Jesus already has you covered by dying for your sins.
Contrary to what you may think I don’t have a problem with religion, but I do think people who use religion to spread hurt are assholes. Considering that religious texts were written, selected and curated by people I frankly think it’s on the individual to interpret them. If your interpretation leads you to harassing dying people then you should stop and become a better person instead.
