If you were required to be an organ donor, you’d save lives while setting yourself free. You’ll also give someone else a chance at taking the spot you had at work and your apartment.
If you were required to be an organ donor, you’d save lives while setting yourself free. You’ll also give someone else a chance at taking the spot you had at work and your apartment.
Voluntary euthanasia would benefit the person. People shouldn’t be forced to live just because society says so and people have been indoctrinated to believe that they should have a say in somebody else’s life.
People commit suicide in the most horrific ways and euthanasia can be a beautiful way to leave the flesh cage of pain. Imagine instead of jumping off a building, you get to sit and watch a sunset over a beautiful landscape. Imagine instead of suffering through cancer or some incurable disease until you get to “palliative care”, you can leave this earthly plane on your own time, without pain and with your loves ones around you.
Of course a rigorous but quick procedure should exist to ensure that the decision is your own without outside pressures. It should be relatively quick so that in cases where your mental capacities start deteriorating, that you aren’t reject because they took too long to make a decision and you are now mentally incapable of answering questions.
Benefit to society? Fuck that. Your body, your choice.
A distant family member took care to avoid his family discovering his remains. But someone does the discovering and if your end is violent and messy, now you’re inflicting that violence on someone else.
Having a way out means a peaceful end, a clear choice, minimal violence and mess, the whoever “discovers you” is prepared for it. Sparing a passer by or first responder, along with your loved ones, from the trauma is a value to society, so there’s that
Yep, that’s true. People who kill themselves in public places can traumatise bystanders. Train operators who hit suicide victims don’t get away without a mental scar.
I was in one of those trains. I never found out whether it was intentional but my train hit someone on a bridge known to be a shortcut for homeless. They took great care I helping us transfer to another train such that we couldn’t see anything. I really hope that driver was eventually ok
I agree with yoy, but further: I think that benefits to individuals are benefits to society.
Billionaires count as individuals and benefits to them don’t necessary benefit the society.
But you make a good point: not every benefit to an individual necessarily also benefits society. I just think the framework of individuals being able to decide for themselves (i.e., voluntaryism) does benefit society.
I disagree. I believe voluntaryism (essentially the non-aggression principle) would make the world better, and that must include every person. Perhaps a lot of how a billionaire acts would also need to change to fall within voluntaryism - it depends on the individual person. But regardless, I think that within a voluntary framework if someone wanted to kill themselves, they should have that right - and that would benefit society as a whole.