From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>David LaRue  wrote:   
   >>>A Friend  wrote:   
   >>>>Tommie Hicks  wrote:   
      
   >>>>>If one is diagnosed with a terminal disease and that one takes their   
   >>>>>life, is it truly suicide?  I know technically it is, but   
   >>>>>philosophically?   
      
   >>>>Yes, it is.  That doesn't answer the question of whether you should do   
   >>>>it, or have the right to do it, or have the right to go to a   
   >>>>jurisdiction where they can do it for you.   
      
   >>>Life is terminal if you wait for it to end.  In some cases the end may come   
   >>>sooner than expected.   
      
   >>>As for taking your life, I have known many with difficult diagnoses and   
   >>>they all chose to enjoy life for as long as possible.  I believe they and   
   >>>those around them were better off from that choice.  Live while you can!   
   >>>We only get to do this once.   
      
   >>"enjoy life for as long as possible"   
      
   >>But we're discussing the period at the end of life, well past the time   
   >>that life is still enjoyable.   
      
   >You're talking about giving up hope and surrendering to despair.   
   >Where (but only where) there is life,there is hope.   
   >The war of the living against death needs no traitors.   
      
   I'd like to not die while in a coma.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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