No offense Irondemon, but that is absurd. Life without liberty is what we all have. You can't steal. You can't kill. You can't walk down the street naked. You can't ejaculate on the street corner. You can't piss on your work desk. You can't litter. You can't drive on one side of the road. Those who try to do things are punished. Absolute freedom would be chaotic and dangerous.
Restrictions to liberty are what make a decent quality of life possible. While (in theory) I'd agree that one should be allowed to terminate their own life, I know lots of kids who've tried to kill themselves. Can you imagine if the doctors had been prevented from treating those kids because they had a right to self terminate? When presented with an ambiguous situation, you must assume that the person who chose to terminate their life was not in capable of giving consent at the time. When you are suicidal, normally you are in an altered state of consciousness and you're not capable of giving consent. This would not be the case in regard mercy killings, where a person was in the process of dieing and one simply accelerated the process to prevent suffering. Let us agree, there is no one single reality. Not upon this stage, not in this world, all is in the mind... imagination is the only truth. Because it cannot be contradicted except by other imaginations - Richard Matheson
There are no conclusive indications by which waking life can be distinguished from sleep - Rene Descartes
