TAW122
Emissary of the right to die.
- Aug 30, 2018
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Throughout my life growing up, I have oftenly heard variations of this saying, not just from family (my father), but also various people in positions of authority (be it at school teachers, administrators, or people of particular influence (motivational speakers and what not)). Also examples of people not wanting to CTB, but die due to circumstances outside of their control in the news, in the media, and more. Some of these deaths are the result of accidents, natural causes, natural disasters, and man-made tragedies and more.
However, I want to debunk the argument that dying is easy. First off, all humans have this biological mechanism called the survival instinct (SI) and that causes us to avoid and/or fear things that would hurt us or cause us harm. This alone is a great impediment towards one's goal, especially if that one's goal is to CTB. There are many more instances where people who survived horrible events come out crippled, damaged (physically and mentally), and wished they were dead instead of being in those predicaments (loss of limbs, paralysis, nerve damage, brain damage, and more). To actually die (on one's own terms), it takes immense courage to overcome one's own SI, then to take the steps (especially the final step) that ends one's own life with all the odds working against one (societal paternalism, their own SI, their method, environmnent, and more).
Living itself isn't hard, but living "well" is hard. For an human to survive, they will just need their basic needs albeit their life would be pretty shitty. These basic needs are food, water, shelter, clothing, and medicine (for disease and illnesses). Furthermore, because of the survival instinct, the human body will do whatever it takes, involuntarily to sustain itself including sending pain signals to the brain. Hence this is why one feels hungry and uncomfortable when one has gone for a substantial amount of time without eating, this is why one feels pain when jabbed by a sharp object, and more.
The people who do end up dead oftenly do not do so by their own hand, but by other causes, and oftenly painfully as their SI does whatever it can to keep them alive (even if it is painful, uncomfortable, unbearable). For example, people who were drowning before they drowned suffered immensely as their body does everything to force them to breathe (involuntarily). People who were hit with blunt trauma (vehicular accidents, impact sports injuries), their body is sending immense pain signals until they either lose conscious or pass away. People who were shot by a firearm feel pain due to the pain receptors sending signals to the brain and the body's SI activating to let the person know he/she is hurt and in pain.
In conclusion, dying is not easy, and just because a few (un)lucky individuals die due to causes outside of their control does not confirm that death is accessible or easy. It takes immense courage to go through an attempt to die by one's own hand and then also enough skill to ensure one's attempt is successful (and not end up failure, resulting in a worse state of existence).
However, I want to debunk the argument that dying is easy. First off, all humans have this biological mechanism called the survival instinct (SI) and that causes us to avoid and/or fear things that would hurt us or cause us harm. This alone is a great impediment towards one's goal, especially if that one's goal is to CTB. There are many more instances where people who survived horrible events come out crippled, damaged (physically and mentally), and wished they were dead instead of being in those predicaments (loss of limbs, paralysis, nerve damage, brain damage, and more). To actually die (on one's own terms), it takes immense courage to overcome one's own SI, then to take the steps (especially the final step) that ends one's own life with all the odds working against one (societal paternalism, their own SI, their method, environmnent, and more).
Living itself isn't hard, but living "well" is hard. For an human to survive, they will just need their basic needs albeit their life would be pretty shitty. These basic needs are food, water, shelter, clothing, and medicine (for disease and illnesses). Furthermore, because of the survival instinct, the human body will do whatever it takes, involuntarily to sustain itself including sending pain signals to the brain. Hence this is why one feels hungry and uncomfortable when one has gone for a substantial amount of time without eating, this is why one feels pain when jabbed by a sharp object, and more.
The people who do end up dead oftenly do not do so by their own hand, but by other causes, and oftenly painfully as their SI does whatever it can to keep them alive (even if it is painful, uncomfortable, unbearable). For example, people who were drowning before they drowned suffered immensely as their body does everything to force them to breathe (involuntarily). People who were hit with blunt trauma (vehicular accidents, impact sports injuries), their body is sending immense pain signals until they either lose conscious or pass away. People who were shot by a firearm feel pain due to the pain receptors sending signals to the brain and the body's SI activating to let the person know he/she is hurt and in pain.
In conclusion, dying is not easy, and just because a few (un)lucky individuals die due to causes outside of their control does not confirm that death is accessible or easy. It takes immense courage to go through an attempt to die by one's own hand and then also enough skill to ensure one's attempt is successful (and not end up failure, resulting in a worse state of existence).
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