2 Quotes by Susan Stefan

Just leave us all alone, to struggle and flounder and weaken and then give us access to prescription drugs so we can die, and pat yourself on the back for respecting our autonomy, while avoiding difficult questions about why so many people in our country want to end their lives in the first place.

The lesson that U.S. social policies and laws teach is crystal clear: if you are feeling like you wish you were dead, you’d better keep quiet about it. That is, unless you want a hospital bed, or to get out of a jail cell, or to get your loved ones to take your pain seriously, in which case you should say you are suicidal whether it’s true or not.