Right to Die Debate
The cluster discusses ethical tensions around the value of human life, individual rights to choose death or euthanasia, and trade-offs between prolonging life for the elderly or ill versus personal freedoms and societal costs.
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I understand you might not want to live that long, but why would you want to take that away from others?
Depends how much we care about other people's right to live.
If we can prevent even one person from having a gruesome death, it’s worth the sacrifice of the other 99?
"...[E]ven if you're ok with dying, that outcome may cause unacceptable harm to other people in your life."
the baby (young enough) doesn't understand the situationalso, you can easily flip it: elderly cannot be saved from the torture of existence, having lived so long, but the baby has barely suffered anything yet - we can save it!
Buddy, I'm not making an "argument". I'm explaining my thought process. If I can live my life in ways that are equivalent except one has less unnecessary killing, I'm going to pick that one. If that doesn't matter to you, that's fine by me.
I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to sacrifice a lot of my freedom to prevent unhealthy or old people to die. You could tell me that I'm wrong, but as far as I know, I'm the only one able to know how I want to live my life
We put way too much value on human life. If someone isn't interested in existing anymore that should be completely acceptible.
In this case man doesn't want to die but others are suggesting it to make it easier on society.
If you have other reasons for not wanting a life to exist, that’s another matter. But if your only reason is that, in your estimation, that person would have a life not worth living, that seems awfully presumptuous. Life is optional. Let them decide if they want to be alive.