RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.
December 11, 2012 at 5:49 pm
In Michigan, the doctor only needs to believe you will harm yourself or others to involuntarily hospitalize you. I was involuntarily hospitalized when I was absolutely no threat to myself, but due to my suicide attempt and having a meltdown over the second death of a friend, my doctor believe I was a danger to myself.
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