RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.
December 11, 2012 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2012 at 5:40 pm by Faith No More.)
I was told that the main reason suicide is against the law is so that if one attempts to commit suicde but survives, the courts have the legal power to force that person into treatment.
My apologies if I hit too close to home with my question, but my point was to illustrate that it is our instincts that keep us from being comfortable with complete self-ownership.
Perhpas another big part of it is our fear of death, and the fact that allowing people to take thier own lives makes us struggle with our own mortality. Some people just do not want to ever be comfortable with anything having to do with death.
Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:I found my mother dying of an overdose when I was 17. Of course I called an ambulance, and I'd do it again if the situation was repeated, regardless of what I think the rational implications of self-ownership are.
My apologies if I hit too close to home with my question, but my point was to illustrate that it is our instincts that keep us from being comfortable with complete self-ownership.
Perhpas another big part of it is our fear of death, and the fact that allowing people to take thier own lives makes us struggle with our own mortality. Some people just do not want to ever be comfortable with anything having to do with death.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
