RE: jack kevorkian and jenna jamison
July 17, 2012 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2012 at 4:12 pm by Autumnlicious.)
Counter argument to #1:
What about people who are violently emotionally distraught and "want to die"?
What about histrionics (*cough cough*)? They want to die as a matter of their emotional lows.
The right to die must be balanced with as many barriers to ensure the one who will die is of compos mentis.
I am calling everyone prior posting here out -- you're flat of fucking wrong with "my body, my life" or simply "freedom of choice" with regards to suicide as a thought pattern. Utterly fucking selfish.
Unless you're considering a very isolated, independent set of circumstances that are disentangled, it's not your life.
Why?
If someone's depending on you, you're taking away from them. If you're the current linchpin of an entity, you're no longer making decisions for just yourself.
So, actually, the right to die is something to grant only after ensuring compos mentis and dependants will not be harmed.
#2 -- as long as the participants can leave like any other profession and are participating of their own free will, sure.
What about people who are violently emotionally distraught and "want to die"?
What about histrionics (*cough cough*)? They want to die as a matter of their emotional lows.
The right to die must be balanced with as many barriers to ensure the one who will die is of compos mentis.
I am calling everyone prior posting here out -- you're flat of fucking wrong with "my body, my life" or simply "freedom of choice" with regards to suicide as a thought pattern. Utterly fucking selfish.
Unless you're considering a very isolated, independent set of circumstances that are disentangled, it's not your life.
Why?
If someone's depending on you, you're taking away from them. If you're the current linchpin of an entity, you're no longer making decisions for just yourself.
So, actually, the right to die is something to grant only after ensuring compos mentis and dependants will not be harmed.
#2 -- as long as the participants can leave like any other profession and are participating of their own free will, sure.
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