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Religious belief? It's more like moral and constitutional basic human right issue.

• dmos62 8y ago
  Are you saying that it's a basic human right to choose whether or not to live, or that it's a right to not have a right to choose? The former would be a very weird statement.
  • NikolaeVarius 8y ago
    I subscribe to former and I have no ides why you think its weird. The choice of continued concious existence is literally the only real natural right we have.
    • dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
      > The choice of continued concious existence is literally the only real natural right we have. We have several choices and we make them each second. A choice to respond to this comment or not, for example. And even in a tragic scenario where you can't make any choice about your body, you may still have many others - see Hawking for example.
    • dmos62 8y ago
      There's an issue of terminology here. What you describe is not a right, it's an obligation. If some action is a right, you can choose not to do it. So you're saying that a human is obligated to live for the maximum span of time possible. Does it still not sound weird? Rhetorics aside, the power to turn yourself off is very important. Taking away this power has been used throughout history as a means to intensify torture. For someone in suffering, the power to end your life can literaly be the difference between complete powerlessness and empowerment. I've been through a few bouts of depression and can confirm this first-hand.
• burke 8y ago
  Yes, that is a religious belief.