“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 )
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“I am the world crier, & this is my dangerous career… I am the one to call your bluff, & this is my climate.” —Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
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.
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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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