Just in the last week a Netherlands court finally allowed a Dutch woman to commit Assisted Suicide despite being physically healthy.  She was autistic and despite years of therapy and drugs, suffered from constant depression.  Though legal on paper, they have a lot of roadblocks to prevent people from doing it who might change their minds or be cured somehow.  Her required treatments included electroshock therapy before they at last let a Dr Kevorkian help her pull the plug.

Far as taboos go for Christians, Suicide is even bigger than Original Sin of Sex.  Bigger than homosexual sex with a dog.  Express train ticket to hell.

Despite this really powerful social abhorrence of death, people contemplate suicide all the time, and the number of people who actually do pull the plug is steadily increasing as we move down the collapse highway.



add in drugs and booze, it's worse.



Clearly there is a point at which life is not worth living anymore, and more people are achieving that level of despair.  But what about the level right below that?  Where it's not SOOOO bad you're ready to put a bullet through your brain, but it just REALLY SUCKS every day just to be alive every day?  How many people in the society feel that way now?

RE