“Completed life” assisted suicide

[madebrief]

Renowned musician dies by assisted suicide in Switzerland after ‘completed life’

Anton Fier, 66, was a prominent figure in the New York music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and had fallen on difficult times, friends said

www.independent.co.uk

It's nice seeing someone can die after having felt his life was complete. What if I feel my life is complete and that I want to continue no further? I can see that I won't be able to add any value to life going forward. I'll just be a burden on myself and society while being miserable every day. My mind just can't cope. I feel complete and done with it all.

 

[emgrl]

Renowned musician dies by assisted suicide in Switzerland after ‘completed life’

Anton Fier, 66, was a prominent figure in the New York music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and had fallen on difficult times, friends said

www.independent.co.uk

It's nice seeing someone can die after having felt his life was complete. What if I feel my life is complete and that I want to continue no further? I can see that I won't be able to add any value to life going forward. I'll just be a burden on myself and society while being miserable every day. My mind just can't cope. I feel complete and done with it all.

I didn't register to read the whole article, was it because he was mentally ill? If so, goes to show, money talks…

 

[artificial_ineptness]

RIP.
It looks like due to arthritis / injuring his wrist he was no longer able to play (to his own standard), which might have been the only thing holding him here. I hope he truly felt that he had completed life, although I am uncomfortable with the fact that:

Friends told the Times that Fier had become a recluse in his latter years, and begun researching ways to end his life after being "hounded by creditors".

 

[DonTellMeToStayAlive]

RIP.
It looks like due to arthritis / injuring his wrist he was no longer able to play (to his own standard), which might have been the only thing holding him here. I hope he truly felt that he had completed life, although I am uncomfortable with the fact that:

same, the money factor being involved makes me uncomfortable as well. In my views, it is harder to say that suicide done to avoid debt is right. In fact I generally argue that it (and suicide when you have a child dependent on you) are those kinds of suicide that are wrong.
But also, debt, to some extent is so much a feature of living in today's world, it is hard to do a lot of things without debt for most people. And at some level, whenever someone provides credit to another person, they take on a risk that their money might not be returned, and suicide could be explained as just one of those risks. Yes, it stigmatises suicidal people further by denying them credit and the opportunities associated with it, but honestly i don't know what hard stance to take on this issue.

All I would say is that the world lost a beloved musician, and hope that peace found him.