[dsign]

One in four people dies of cancer[^1]. Those are terrible odds as they are, but it gets worse because most people will go through their lives terrified of when it will be their time to enter that Russian roulette of agony, and because everybody will have to see or care for a friend or relative dying that way.

Our therapies and treatments are so pitifully inadequate and yet so damn trying and expensive... We need a true revolution there, a qualitative jump of the kind between calling linear correlation a form of "AI" and calling an LLM a form of "AI".

[^1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

[ASalazarMX]

Or a legal reform to die with dignity, in our own terms, and not be forced to endure a terminal illness until organ failure.

[dsign]

That's not a solution, but a stopgap measure for the fact we can't do better. A stopgap measure I would prefer for myself though; not arguing the fact that it's the least bad option.

But there's is something I don't understand and I can't ask ChatGPT for fear of them closing my account and reporting me to the police, the health authorities and the Inquisition, but I thought that the repercussions for dying on your own terms came in the form of stigma? Is there anything the law does to your surviving relatives? Also, at least in USA it's legal and relatively simple to own a high caliber weapon, which to me beats all the options legally available in the rest of the world.

[toomuchtodo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide#Legality_by_c...