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The Day I Decided Not to Quit · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good afternoon listeners. Thank you so much for listening
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  Speaker 1: to lament of hope podcast as you guys know We
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  Speaker 1: are nearing our 300th episode, which is amazing And so
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  Speaker 1: many people from around the world with different struggles and
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  Speaker 1: stories And it's all because of you guys and your support.
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  Speaker 1: So i'm super grateful I feel like I have to
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  Speaker 1: say that every time I start because I just it
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  Speaker 1: always blows me away when I think about it.
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  Speaker 2: And um With this, it's like someone telling you that
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  Speaker 2: they're suicidal and you're just handing them a gun instead.
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  Speaker 2: And we take away the opportunity for hope. We take
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  Speaker 2: away the opportunity to heal those parts of us that
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  Speaker 2: can be healed. And that doesn't mean it's an easy journey.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying like, hey, you're going to have somebody
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  Speaker 2: next to you and everything's going to be better and whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're all going to smile and move on
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  Speaker 2: and tomorrow's perfect. You know, there are some really long
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  Speaker 2: journeys to go through that are difficult. But there's so
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  Speaker 2: much love and beauty behind walking through somebody during those
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  Speaker 2: times of their life. I have family members who have
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  Speaker 2: recently passed away and I got to be there with them.
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  Speaker 2: And what an honor to be a part of their
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  Speaker 2: life at the end of their life. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that we just, we don't put enough emphasis on everything
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  Speaker 2: there is to learn and experience at every stage of life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have a really good point about how
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  Speaker 1: if people are suicidal, we want to get them help.
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  Speaker 1: But it does seem that when people are choosing to die,
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  Speaker 1: I guess in a dignified manner, which is how we
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  Speaker 1: get the phrase deaf with dignity, It seems to switch.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to be that from what I've seen and heard,
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  Speaker 1: people will say, well, they want to die and they're
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  Speaker 1: doing it in a dignified manner that is legal in
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  Speaker 1: wherever they're doing it. Therefore, it's okay. And I find
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  Speaker 1: that really interesting. If it's okay to choose... your death,
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  Speaker 1: which is, I mean, it is suicide because you could
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  Speaker 1: keep living, you know, but you're choosing to end it.
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  Speaker 1: So you're putting an end date on your life, but
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  Speaker 1: you're doing it via a way that is legal or
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  Speaker 1: via medicine or a way that is really covered, cloaked
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  Speaker 1: from the world, right? We don't see what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: We just know that's going to happen. And usually when
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  Speaker 1: it does, it's maybe one family member is there. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: no one's there. It's just the clinician who's ever doing
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  Speaker 1: the administering of the drug.
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  Speaker 2: And they actually have to be in most places I
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  Speaker 2: believe there's a couple places that have put new twists
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  Speaker 2: on it but one of the requirements is that the
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  Speaker 2: patient needs to be able to administer it themselves and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are trying to add more things
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  Speaker 2: into the law to make it easier for people, which
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  Speaker 2: is how you get people with depression, anorexia, diabetes, being
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  Speaker 2: allowed to kill themselves now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I wanted to ask you, like, why is,
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  Speaker 1: why do you think that is? Why is it that
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  Speaker 1: if it's done that way, as opposed to when you
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  Speaker 1: think of a typical suicide, it's a little more messy, right?
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  Speaker 1: Or it's just The person's suddenly gone. It's not legal.
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  Speaker 1: But it's literally the same thing except sterilized, if that
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  Speaker 1: makes any sense. It's so different, but the same. It's just,
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  Speaker 1: in a way, no one sees it. It's legal. You
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  Speaker 1: can do it. But it's the same repercussions for people.
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  Speaker 1: So why do you think that there seems to be
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  Speaker 1: a moral switch in people's minds between suicide that we
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  Speaker 1: think of Since the Dawn of Time or Euphanasia.