It is the current imagining of the majority of people on your planet that it is "not okay" to do that.Similarly, many of you still insist that it is not okay to assist another who wishes to end his or her life. In both cases you say this should be "against the law." You have come to this conclusion, presumably, because the ending of the life occurs quickly. Actions which end a life over a somewhat longer period of time are not against the law, even though they achieve the same result.Thus, if a person in your society kills himself with a gun,his family members lose insurance benefits.If he does so with cigarettes, they do not. If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is commerce. With your society, it seems to be merely a question of time. The faster the death, the more wrong it seems to be.The slower the death, the more it slips into Okayness.It is no more immoral to kill yourself quickly than it is to kill yourself slowly
2007-07-09
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