From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   Being maintained on life support in a state from which I would never   
   recover is hideous. I don't agree. Just let me die.   
      
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