<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">There was a man in Tennessee whose wife killed him. He asked for it - begged for it. Extreme pain that no drugs touched. Could you say he made an immoral or bad decision? If one's life is nothing but pain, I would consider suicide a great choice. I don't have to make it, or at least don't right now, but I would not hesitate to end mine if I were in constant agony. I never heard about the wife -whether she did any jail time, but I think assisted suicide should be legal in every state. Why should we have to fly to Oregon to do it? Whose body and mind is it? It is NOT the state's. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Or from my position, God does not come into it, though people will tell you that your life belongs to him and to take your life means you have usurped God's choice. Not my view. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 11:27 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 12:25 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 15 Jun 2023, Gadersd via extropy-chat wrote:<br>>> ask about why we want to live a long time.<br>
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> That seems an odd thing to have to explain. Life is good, no?<br>
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I always find these immortality discussions very strange. For me, it is<br>
not about immortality per se, but about choice. Being able to decide<br>
yourself when you had enough.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Being about choice is a good point. But if that is the only point, are you saying that morality is relative, or that there is no morality, right or wrong, good or bad... choice?</div><div><br></div><div>Seems to me choosing to end things is necessarily a bad/wrong/mistaken... choice.</div><div>Seems to me, survival is always, necessarily, better than not surviving. That is why evolution must progress in all sufficiently complex worlds?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>
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