[quote=@SleepingSilence] [ I get into arguments about just how healthy pot is for you, I have enough actual secondhand knowledge to roll my eyes. [/quote] I am so with you on this. I'm not saying it dosent have benefits in certain therapeutic circumstances but people need to stop pretending its some sort of panacea. [quote=@SleepingSilence] That's incredibly arrogant to take it that way. 11 billion dollars is money that could be going into ANYTHING else. And the point of that study, isn't about money but about the survival rate. So all these people do, is make themselves go through a bunch of hospital time and waste a ton of money in the process. It's never going to be "profitable", can't really make someone pay if their dead. My point of bringing up cost, is the defense of "it's hurting no one else," when it's going to very likely financially burden someone else. (especially if it becomes legal.) "The average cost of one suicide was $1,329,553. More than 97 percent of this cost was due to lost productivity. The remaining 3 percent were costs associated with medical treatment. The total cost of suicides and suicide attempts was $93.5 billion." https://www.sprc.org/about-suicide/costs [/quote] Im a little confused as to what your point is here. Is it that unsuccessful suicide attempts are expensive in lost productivity? I don't think anyone is arguing that suicide 'hurts no one' because its clearly emotionally devastating for family and friends. This is the best argument against suicide in my opinion because, as I said, we will all be dead soon anyway so why rush. That being said, dying a slow and agonizing death of cancer also devastating for all involved. I think people should have an option to end their lives in a painless and dignified way.