I hope that the states are concerned first of all with world hunger, poverty, unemployment, pollution ... Before preventing us from disposing of our lives.
In its current aura, by a terrifying paradox, suicide appears as the resource for supernumeraries of the human species to provide proof that they exist. I commit suicide, therefore I am: a desperate version of the cogito, which finds its ultimate resonance in the imprecations of Antonin Artaud.
"Suicide of society": we propose to remake an active verb, and even a reflexive verb, in every sense of the term, that is to say liberated from its melodramatic connotations. It is not suicide in itself that is pathetic, it will be the social or existential dead ends which will have determined (or influenced) it. To attack suicide as such amounts to shaking the thermometer when the temperature does not suit us. Those who persist in preventing people from dying are usually the very people who kept them from living.
It is not suicide that must be prevented, it is prevention. We must learn to consider death no longer as a specter but as a friend, or as a nurse. As soon as we can count on her to come to our aid (that is to say, to have euthanasia drugs), she will stop poisoning our existence, she will rather dissuade us from shortening it.
Living must not obey a duty, but a desire. We did not ask to be born, and we must only consent to life by virtue of a contract renewable from day to day and cancellable within the same term. To be able to take leave without pathos or pain, we will consider existence with more casualness and more humor.
(Jaccard, Thévoz)
