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assisted suicide vs suicide prevention
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention
(June 17, 2018 at 9:00 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Here's a bit of Stoic philosophy that I find relevant to the subject:

Seneca Wrote:You may consider that the same thing happens to us: life has carried some men with the greatest rapidity to the harbour, the harbour they were bound to reach even if they tarried on the way, while others it has fretted and harassed. To such a life, as you are aware, one should not always cling. For mere living is not a good, but living well. Accordingly, the wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can. He will mark in what place, with whom, and how he is to conduct his existence, and what he is about to do. He always reflects concerning the quality, and not the quantity, of his life. As soon as there are many events in his life that give him trouble and disturb his peace of mind, he sets himself free. And this privilege is his, not only when the crisis is upon him, but as soon as Fortune seems to be playing him false; then he looks about carefully and sees whether he ought, or ought not, to end his life on that account. He holds that it makes no difference to him whether his taking-off be natural or self-inflicted, whether it comes later or earlier. He does not regard it with fear, as if it were a great loss; for no man can lose very much when but a driblet remains. It is not a question of dying earlier or later, but of dying well or ill. And dying well means escape from the danger of living ill.

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=1999
Always loved the Stoic so poetic Smile
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Chad32 - June 4, 2018 at 11:00 am
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Chad32 - June 4, 2018 at 11:08 am
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Brian37 - June 4, 2018 at 11:08 am
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Losty - June 4, 2018 at 11:51 am
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Brian37 - June 4, 2018 at 12:12 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by MasterX - June 17, 2018 at 2:32 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by MasterX - June 17, 2018 at 2:42 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by MasterX - June 18, 2018 at 7:04 am
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 18, 2018 at 9:13 am
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by MasterX - June 18, 2018 at 12:37 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by henryp - June 4, 2018 at 12:05 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Brian37 - June 4, 2018 at 12:21 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Losty - June 4, 2018 at 12:22 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Losty - June 4, 2018 at 12:34 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Brian37 - June 4, 2018 at 12:38 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Brian37 - June 4, 2018 at 12:49 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 12:45 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 12:50 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Brian37 - June 4, 2018 at 12:54 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 1:36 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 1:52 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 3:47 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 12:56 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 3:23 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 3:51 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 4, 2018 at 3:49 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 4, 2018 at 3:51 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 4, 2018 at 3:50 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 5:05 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 4, 2018 at 3:57 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Silver - June 4, 2018 at 4:01 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 4, 2018 at 4:23 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 4, 2018 at 4:37 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 4, 2018 at 4:45 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 4, 2018 at 5:01 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 4, 2018 at 5:04 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 5:14 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by brewer - June 4, 2018 at 6:24 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Brian37 - June 16, 2018 at 7:40 am
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by tjakey - June 6, 2018 at 11:54 am
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 18, 2018 at 3:51 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 18, 2018 at 12:46 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by MasterX - June 18, 2018 at 12:46 pm
RE: assisted suicide vs suicide prevention - by Amarok - June 18, 2018 at 2:33 pm

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