# Ethics of Suicide (tangent from "van lifer goes missing" thread)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 26, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethics-of-suicide-tangent-from-van-lifer-goes-missing-thread/955159 "2021-11-26T04:16:38Z")
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### Author: ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethics-of-suicide-tangent-from-van-lifer-goes-missing-thread/955159/71 "2021-11-29T20:21:15Z")

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> [@Van lifer goes missing on cross country trip with fiancee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/van-lifer-goes-missing-on-cross-country-trip-with-fiancee/950604/1355):
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> That is not incompatible with them being selfish. People who are ill and people who are in pain ARE selfish, it’s a symptom and a very common reaction to illness and pain of any sort. That does not make them a bad person.

I disagree with this. Chronically ill and disabled people spend a tremendous amount of energy masking their symptoms, and trying to live life without imposing on others or making others uncomfortable simply by virtue of being disabled. I can’t think of a less selfish group of people.

I think the idea that someone is selfish simply by virtue of being ill is strange.

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