‘Suicide Pod’ Death Should Remind Us of What Makes Life Worth Living, by Sarah Holliday

The “portable suicide pod” is the latest means of killing to enter the assisted suicide market.

It turns out, quite tragically, that 2023 saw the highest number of suicide deaths ever recorded within the U.S. since the 1940s. Over 50,000 Americans took their own lives last year alone. Just one year prior, at least 1.6 million Americans attempted suicide, 3.8 million planned to, and 13.2 million “seriously” considered it. And this does not take into account all the people who chose not to report their woes.

We talk about suicide as a terribly sad and irreversible decision, and that’s because it is. It’s hard to stomach the number of people in America — in the world — who feel so beyond help that the only option they believe they have is to end it all. Surely, many of these individuals make the decision through streams of tears and gasping breaths, in a mental state that has them screaming at themselves: I just can’t do it anymore! ….