From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Never coming out of a coma would appear to be   
   the most peaceful of deaths.   
      
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