Not meaning to denigrate those with depression, attention seeking, etc leading to such outcomes but it is not normal and that puts them on the other side of the line between rational, law abiding gun owners.

I don't know what the percentages are, but having just spent the past week with a terminally ill relative, euthanasia should not be considered abnormal, even if it's self-inflicted with a gun.

It should be considered normal and rational if a person, advised by experienced hospice and physician, chooses to avoid the pain and fear that a person may experience in those last weeks and days.

Morphine as provided by physician and hospice just doesn't cut it. Something like Fentanyl should be made available so one need not resort to a gun. And in the states where euthanasia drugs are not legal, a gun suicide should not be considered irrational.

I pity the people in states whose bible belt dogma prevents them from swallowing a merciful pill, and so resort to a gun to avoid choking for days on their own mucous, dehydrating, suffocating. It's absolutely barbaric.

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