Just asking out of curiosity - I know there are places where they let you end your life due to terminal illness or horrendous physical conditions. Are there countries where you can voluntarily end your life due to you being persistently lonely or struggling (unemployment) due to illnesses like bipolar, schizophrenia, ADHD, OCD or autism? And could this ever become legal in the future?

Sometimes I think about how I would hide/use my phone if I ever got kidnapped.
What do kidnappers actually do when they find it?
Or do they make sure it’s the first thing they take?

I have a really talented Friend, who wants to use an actual American burial flag from an estranged family member for a highly subversive Piece of Art.

The artwork will be a direct critique of the "Epstein class," institutional protection of predators, and the systemic exploitation of Women and Children in the US. The plan is to overlay ornate text and quotes, using calligraphy and other techniques, directly onto the fabric, contrasting an object of national honor with institutional rot, that is The United States Government Under it's Current Administration.

Would you or wouldn't you create a piece like this? Why or why not?

I don't mean necessarily getting pregnant, but with surrogacy

ETA: leaving aside the genetic pool argument

I don’t know if this has ever been asked and I’m sitting here on a random rainy Saturday night. If someone has been in a terrible wreck, dying, and by whatever miracle survived until paramedics or emergency services arrived asked a favor. Can I have a cigarette? Have there ever been provisions for this in history? Are there ethical standards for or against it? Just curious and morbidly bored.

Theorising ways to get jacked

I see this happening quite often. I’d assume a relatively small percentage of people in the western world get raped in their lifetime (non-consensual penetrative sex). Yet oftentimes when the topic is brought up you’ll hear of people who get raped on multiple different occasions by multiple different abusers in multiple different places.

You’d think that would be exceedingly rare, but I haven’t experienced it as such. It seems to me as if a slightly larger portion of people get raped a second time, and a slightly larger portion of THOSE people get raped a third time, and so on. It’s not uncommon to hear of sad cases where there have been maybe 5 different incidents.

I’m more wondering if perhaps there’s a reason. Maybe certain people gravitate towards abusers more often. Perhaps they have a tendency to stay out in dangerous places. I’m wondering if anybody here has noticed something similar and thought of a better reason why.

I’d normally apologise for the morbid nature of the question, but it seems relatively apt for the subreddit. That being said, I don’t visit here very often, so if the post goes against anything usually posted on here I’d be happy to take it down.

I know the most common answers are “it’s gross”, “it’s disrespectful”, and “the family would be upset”. The dead body is no longer sentient, will never be sentient again, and won’t be harmed by your actions. In a hypothetical scenario where the family does not find out, why is it wrong?

I keep hearing it gets worse and keep hitting rockier bottoms, with no sign of light at the end of the tunnel. But there's been some good days, yet always been scared of the other shoe to drop.

((I’m a neurodivergent person who’s interested in studying mental health, and I swear that this question is asked purely out of curiosity))

Just curious about this

I find it really strange and creepy how these people just kill others who did nothing to do them. I would think after killing at least one person they would have major regrets but they just keep going. What kind of thinking is that? “I just shoot anything that moves”?

Let’s say I’m standing at a bus stop and I release a particularly evil spirit. Unbeknownst to me, an elderly man is standing behind me and is at the epicenter of direct impact. He begins coughing profusely, unable to stop, collapses, and doesn’t recover.

Would I be held legally liable and charged with manslaughter?

Other than him, of course.

And who will be the next zombified US politician?

It is arguably more tragic to lose a parent at 2 years old than at 1, and at 3 than at 2. You remember the parent more vividly and have a better understanding of what is happening.

Conversely, while tragic I would rather lose a parent at 18 than, say, 14.

My assertion is therefore: in somewhere in between is the age at which it is most traumatic to lose your parents. What is that age?

Obviously talking about averages, this will differ from person to person and is also context dependent

I was having a conversation with some friends and one of them said women shouldn’t donate their bodies to science, because someone could commit necrophilia against them. The others said they would feel uncomfortable about having their bodies dissected and studied.

I said I don’t care at all what happens to my body after I die. I don’t care if they choose to bury it, cremate it, donate to science, throw into a river, commit necrophilia or whatever. I’m not worried about that at all. It just isn’t my concern. If someone chooses to stick their dicks into it, that’s THEIR problem. They’re the ones getting sick, not me. They’re are the ones facing legal problems, not me. That’s because I won’t even exist anymore.

I wouldn’t want to cause my family distress, because I understand how much bodies matter to you when you’re grieving. But if one day I grow old and have no family, It just won’t be a problem to anyone.

I don’t believe in life after death btw, but I think that if I did, I would be even less concerned.

EDIT:

I just had a pretty horrid idea. But I PROMISE I’m not a bad person.

I know a lot of people get into prostitution because they are facing difficult financial situations.

Personally, I would HATE to sell my body. I don’t think I could ever do it. I think a lot of women must feel this way, but end up doing it anyway because of desperate conditions.

But what if we could sell our dead bodies?? It would be A LOT LESS uncomfortable. Because we won’t exist anymore!

Like some sick twisted millionaire pays us (in LIFE) to give away our bodies in the case we die prematurely. The same applies to other things like cannibalism!

I have no idea what kind of company feels comfortable participating in this. And how would they be advertising it? I just don't know how that works.

in a proper fight most human for some reason punch why? might sound like a silly question but punching is for boxing if you want to box go in a ring. but in the street in real life most humans use fists why? well if you want to hurt someone in self defence you use weapon a knife metal anything if you cant you eye gouge you use your nails deep in the skin you bite the throat humans have very good bite force you break fingers you aim for the Testicles etc its very rare humans use anything apart from fists in a fight.