‘By My Own Hand: Suicide Can Be a Wise and Gentle Choice’Lowrey R. Brown

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This is good read for anyone looking for advocacy towards the right to die.

By My Own Hand: Suicide Can Be a Wise and Gentle Choice | Free Inquiry

It’s time to look beneath the stigma and see a socially-accepted role for suicide in a nation where our lives are our own. I will die. You will die. Death i ...

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Some parts of this article that resonated with me…

"If your life is truly yours, then it is yours to end. If this is true for you, then it is true for your neighbor, your parent, your spouse, your sibling, and your child. In recognizing every individual's right to his or her own life, we must accept that this right will sometimes be exercised for reasons that we do not understand or agree with."

"It is dangerously easy to take another's apparent circumstances and presume that it feels like what we would feel if we were in that situation. It doesn't. We don't have those nerve cells or those values or that history or that approach to dignity. It is impossible for one person to feel what another is experiencing. If we are to fully respect every human's individuality and personhood, then we have to accept what someone tells us about his or her quality of life and his or her values, no matter how uncomfortable it might make us. We might make different choices for ourselves, were we in another's circumstances, but we certainly don't want another making choices for us in such circumstances."

 

[11April]

Thanks for sharing. Very good article. I also liked the following line: "Yes, you have light, but if you cannot have dark, you don't have the right to light, you just have light, and that's a very different concept."