This is a long and arduous yet worth-contemplating post.
There's a part that struck me the most: "once we accept that only life of a certain quality is worth living, where will we stop? When we devalue one life, we devalue all lives. Who will speak for the severely handicapped infant or the senile woman?"
It reminds me not only of not only suicide or assisted suicide but also of the kind of "assisted suicide" made to a disabled child who has yet to come to life. Non-invasive Prenatal Testing, they say, but a more common definition is "learning if a child is disabled by birth; if yes, parents should "free their child" from suffering life even before it begins". If we deny the disabled child the right to live, we are also denying the currently living disabled people (some of whom might be our "invisibly" disabled friends) the right to live.
Suffering is suffering, that is my view as a non-disabled human body. But whether suicide is the appropriate solution to a specific suffering should be treated with consideration. Before making the decision, I think it's necessary that people be informed to know and understand that suicide is neither superior nor inferior to sustaining a suffering life, or other options; it is ONE of the many possibilities.
This is a long and arduous yet worth-contemplating post.
There's a part that struck me the most: "once we accept that only life of a certain quality is worth living, where will we stop? When we devalue one life, we devalue all lives. Who will speak for the severely handicapped infant or the senile woman?"
It reminds me not only of not only suicide or assisted suicide but also of the kind of "assisted suicide" made to a disabled child who has yet to come to life. Non-invasive Prenatal Testing, they say, but a more common definition is "learning if a child is disabled by birth; if yes, parents should "free their child" from suffering life even before it begins". If we deny the disabled child the right to live, we are also denying the currently living disabled people (some of whom might be our "invisibly" disabled friends) the right to live.
Suffering is suffering, that is my view as a non-disabled human body. But whether suicide is the appropriate solution to a specific suffering should be treated with consideration. Before making the decision, I think it's necessary that people be informed to know and understand that suicide is neither superior nor inferior to sustaining a suffering life, or other options; it is ONE of the many possibilities.
true could not agree more, thank you for reading :))))