From: le@main.lekno.ws
Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> 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.
As long as you are being maintained on life support there is
a possibility that a means of granting you recovery could be
discovered.
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