Why she did what she did is irrelevant? That’s bull, otherwise you wouldn’t have brought up “in pain or sick…” while leaving out the real reason for her action.
She has no capacity to be troubled by anything, because she no longer exists.
Maynard did. She frittered away her time with selfish pursuits and killed herself because she couldn’t life the lifestyle of a millionaire dilettante anymore.
Choosing death is never rational.
Fine.
There is absolutely nothing dignified about killing yourself. The lesson she is teaching here is that if your life is tough, if you have problems, if you’re in pain or sick, or or dying of a painful disease with no hope of recovery, all you have to do is kill yourself and your problems will all go away.
Better?
Frittered away her time? Uh … what was she supposed to do? Stay in bed hooked up to tubes and wires and watch her body waste away?
Once again, no one is arguing the “life is tough, if you have problems, if you’re in pain or sick’” part. It’s the “dying of a painful disease with no hope of recovery” that is the issue. So, please stop bringing that up.
Do you think the only people who will follow her example and kill themselves are the terminally ill?
Billions, at the very least. I know that next time I stub my toe, I’m going to think “Oh, remember when that cancer girl had pain? Yeah, she set the example about how to handle this” and kill myself.
Not surprisingly, you don’t understand what a coward is. Acknowledging fear doesn’t make one a coward – acknowledging fear is actually the only way someone can be brave.
Apparently doing so, while experiencing whatever pain wasn’t quelled by medication, would have built some character for her, or something.
Anything besides go on fancy vacations that most terminally ill people could only ever dream of while blogging about how she was going to kill herself because her quality of life sucked so much.
Unless you believe in an afterlife, this is an objectively true statement.
Acknowledging fear leads to bravery. Surrendering to it - as by killing yourself - makes you a coward.
Yes. Because she’s not setting an example for the depressed, stressed or underly dressed. She’s setting an example for, once again, those “dying of a painful disease with no hope of recovery.” That’s what we’re arguing here. Try to get that through your head.
Except that she is, because those are the people more likely to be in a state of mind to kill themselves.
You are not qualified to make such a judgment.
Further, choosing death is sometimes the morally correct judgment. It is morally correct to sacrifice yourself to save others, in some circumstances. I know that you’d never do such a thing, but others have done so, and others would should the circumstance arise.
And you are? What are your qualifications? What are your qualifications to judge my qualifications, for that matter?
That would at least be more productive and beneficial to society than killing yourself because you don’t want to be sick.
And it bothers you that this “millionaire dilettante”, who never did you any harm, didn’t spend her last few months on earth screaming in agony and leaving all her friends and family with horrible memories that they would bear for the rest of their lives?
Not sick.
DYING.
Quit trying to change the subject.
I’m glad to see you’ve changed your mind. That was easy.
Only in some circumstances. But even if it does, killing oneself to avoid suffering is far, far less cowardly than failing to subject yourself to very slight risk to, say, free some enslaved people.