Hanging in there with cancer? Sure, fight it and deal with the pain. Dementia? No, please end it. The two aren't even close in comparison, cancer feels easy and merciful.
But this is what happened with the man in the original article. He had a sense of himself that he wanted preserve. And that to me as a sickness, a spiritual sickness, greediness almost.
And he’s taken something, he’s taking his own life. Which I do not believe it was his to take.
Are we even sure that our life ends when we die? I’ve had to have someone come back and tell me one way or the other.
I think we are so certain of things that once you really start thinking about them that certain you can disappear quickly.
I also don’t know if there are little green men living on the moon. But I’m almost sure that the earth wasn’t created in 6 days less than 7000 years ago. Can you tell me abt religious belief that makes sense?
And I’m not staying the state owns his life, I’m saying I don’t know who owns it. I’m saying that’s a really difficult philosophical question.
But in the United States, you cannot die by suicide legally. So the state does have control over your life.
But let’s say I own my life. Why would I want to destroy something I own? Who is the I that benefits from that action?
If you own your life then why do you allow your life to suffer? Why don’t you just stop you’re suffering if you own your life by other means then killing yourself?
You see it gets very tricky.
And the US has always been hypocritical about controlling people’s lives.
> you really can’t suffer if you have no sense of self
... there's no way to know if this is true.