Michaelhenry, while accepting the logic and sent...

2013-09-06T09:11:22.797+01:00

Michaelhenry,

while accepting the logic and sentiment of what you say, it is also important to add that suicide is something society should do its utmost to prevent, even in the case if people like Castro.

I ultimately come down on the side of people exercising autonomy over their own bodies, but it is an autonomy that can only be exercised meaningfully if people are autonomous in regard to things like depression and other conditions that impair their capacity for a reasoned decision making capacity.

People coerced by an illness beyond their control into making a decision to end their lives is not consistent with the principle of autonomy. Driven by despair seems far removed from rational choice.

I am fairly at ease with the Dignitas concept.

A tricky one to master in application. I think the perspective of those who work at the coalface in terms of suicide prevention would be a valuable one to hear.

I do hope when Ariel did the world a favour and hu...

2013-09-06T00:07:27.034+01:00

I do hope when Ariel did the world a favour and hung himself that it ended the evil that was in his home
over the many years that he held young girls captive-repeatedly raped and beat them back and blue
making one young girl have a child whilst he forced the other girls to terminate their pregnancy by kicking their stomachs-all whilst his family were upstairs-the wife is the only woman I know that did not check and clean over her house-
perhaps she was warned not to go below- and the neighbours reported to the police about seeing young girls and a naked child in the back garden over the years to the police but nothing happened-
but the heros of this story are those girls who survived this nightmare-

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Michaelhenry, while accepting the logic and sent...

I do hope when Ariel did the world a favour and hu...