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[William Flynn Wallace]

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.

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

On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 11:27 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 12:25 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023, Gadersd via extropy-chat wrote:
>> >> ask about why we want to live a long time.
>> >
>> > That seems an odd thing to have to explain. Life is good, no?
>>
>> I always find these immortality discussions very strange. For me, it is
>> not about immortality per se, but about choice. Being able to decide
>> yourself when you had enough.
>>
>
> 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?
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> Seems to me choosing to end things is necessarily a bad/wrong/mistaken...
> choice.
> Seems to me, survival is always, necessarily, better than not surviving.
> That is why evolution must progress in all sufficiently complex worlds?
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