A ieighbor here who's a retired Philosophy professor and software engineer and a good friend or mine wrote me an email just now with this remark:

There is a lot of unnecessary suffering because of the idiotic idea that the state knows better than an individual whether his life is worth living. The laws don't prevent suicide attempts. They just result in failed attempts that make people even more miserable,

Anyone brain dead enough to be conned into euthanasia cannot be having such a wonderful life.

It is just absurd that the compassion we show a pet is not given to people, not even allowing them to decide for themselves.

I think at bottom there is a strong resistance to the idea that human life should be judged not worth living, since it implies humans are not worth living with. Suicide, except in the case of terminal illness, is a strong No vote on the value of our contemporaries. No surprise they want to outlaw it.

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