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To: one_less who wrote (3924)1/22/2003 6:46:13 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
So unless you are going to parse the "freedom to commit suicide" as being a freedom only for people who are totally unobligated, I think you must address this issue of abandonment.

The point that I don't seem to be able to get across to you is that I'm prepared to address damages caused by the suicide just like any other damages caused by the act of a person. If the problem is damage, then focus the law on damage, not on the suicide. The person who is unobligated should not be restricted just because other people have obligations. And focusing on suicide when you really mean abandonment of obligations is wrong-headed.

It would be silly to say that you "can't" because it is illegal, when of course you can.

Of course you can. Which makes it silly to have a law against suicide, which the law can neither prevent nor penalize.

Whether on can or can't only becomes an issue when you are in such poor condition that you need someone to help you and that helper risks legal penalty. Basically, then, the laws against assisted suicide discriminate against the disabled who can't, in good conscience, risk a legal penalty to a friend for what able bodied people can do without legal consequence.

At what point does one have the right to murder any human being.

When that human being is oneself. If we haven't a right to do that, then rights are meaningless.
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