Of course it would need to be more of a process than a booth. A business with a storefront, a 7-30 day waiting period, a minimum age, etc. That said, why isn’t there an opt out? Why must one break the law, risk severe pain and possible survival with disability to opt out?
I’m American for context. We clearly don’t value human life here, at all. Empty rhetoric, sure. But never in practice. This would be a win all around given our practiced values.
It could be a business that charges a fee that could be reasonably saved for even in poverty. So the capitalists could get their profit, the only thing our society does value, and the malcontents could get the painless “no thanks” opt out they desperately desire.
Bonus for the glorious job creators: probably most of the people they consider “lazy, lennonist, socialist, marxist commies” would no longer be a nuisance to them. They could count their shillings in peace, without converting new ones.
Really the only reason I can think of that a good capitalist would be against this is that it might reduce the homeless population, our massive tent cities are a purposeful way to scare the workforce into continuing to show up for their jobs.
Do our tent cities of capitalism scarecrows really generate more profit through fear than for profit suicide would through the closest thing to mercy (for profit) a capitalist could approve of?
I think this would be one of those things some in our society fears beforehand, like marijuana dispensaries, but comes to appreciate the presence of once available. A core tenant of claimed capitalist values is that participation is supposedly “voluntary,” after all.
Counterpoint: a reality that doesn’t make you want to kill yourself should be a thing that exists.
While I agree, doing so is a practical impossibility.
The little club with all the media(aka mass propaganda), governmental, and police state power knows doing so would be against the interests of feeding their insatiable greed disease.
The powerless have proven more content fighting one another for scraps than uniting against them.
The world is what the world is. I know the more idealistic believe they are merely losing the class war, when the reality is the class war was lost decisively half a century ago, without meaningful opposition. This is class occupation.
My proposal would at least add mercy in a way the occupiers might accept, as it benefits them.
Not all suicidal people are driven there by external events, what we need is more comprehensive and affordable mental health care and the removal of the stigma attached to people to take advantage of it.