Peter Singer and Redeeming Characteristics

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Mar 14 19:59:32 PST 2001


Gordon says:


>Marta Russell:
>> The hopeless sufferers (as you call them) have been killing themselves
>> for centuries without getting the medical profession involved.
>> ...
>
>Yes, but from what I've read, they often mess up the job and
>wind up alive and worse off than they were before-- it's
>harder to kill yourself properly than you might think. So the
>question arises as to whether these people can have the freedom
>to seek professional assistance and better technology to do
>what they want to do, and if not, how taking their freedom
>away can be justified.

What's the point of struggling for the right to die when we don't have the right to live? First thing first....

Yoshie



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