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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Sample Comments

crystalis May 21, 2010 View on HN

I understand you might not want to live that long, but why would you want to take that away from others?

pjmlp Mar 14, 2018 View on HN

Depends how much we care about other people's right to live.

mensetmanusman Dec 12, 2024 View on HN

If we can prevent even one person from having a gruesome death, it’s worth the sacrifice of the other 99?

juvenn Sep 13, 2009 View on HN

"...[E]ven if you're ok with dying, that outcome may cause unacceptable harm to other people in your life."

SheetPost Jul 6, 2022 View on HN

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!

wpietri Sep 24, 2022 View on HN

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.

polote Aug 19, 2020 View on HN

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

whalesalad May 16, 2024 View on HN

We put way too much value on human life. If someone isn't interested in existing anymore that should be completely acceptible.

ipaddr Oct 12, 2025 View on HN

In this case man doesn't want to die but others are suggesting it to make it easier on society.

toasterlovin Jun 13, 2018 View on HN

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.