Australia's Suicide 'Choice'
Modern Western societies such as Australia highly value intelligence, independence, youth, physical beauty and agility, material wealth and enjoyment from physical pursuits such as travel, sex and sports. Self-determined, rational individual choices are supposed to deliver to us the best of what's on offer. It is not surprising, therefore, that people who fall outside many, or all, of these values, such as many people who have disabilities and aged people, are the subject of much discrimination and abuse.