With Help, Conductor and Wife Ended Lives

2009 July 16
by FmH

“It is a very civilized way to end your life, and I don’t understand why the legal position in this country doesn’t allow it.” (New York Times )

from → Death, Suicide

2 Responses
  1. 2009 July 16
    Stan Taylor permalink

    It is indeed civilized. I wish it were easier to do this in the US and elsewhere.

    The article mentions that the husband was not himself terminally ill, but instead wanted to die with his terminally ill wife. I really don’t see what terminal illness has to do with it; if you want to end your life, it’s your business.

  2. 2009 July 18
    Charles permalink

    Didn’t the taboo against suicide originate with Christianity, the religion that was designed by Constantine and Eusebius to keep the slaves in their place in this world with a promise of paradise in the next? In such a system, suicide had to be a mortal sin or all the slaves might off themselves in order to gain escape from their hell on earth to a dream life in heaven.

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