> A person must have the right to chose the terms of their own existence. I don't think this functions as a principle. It only seems like it applies very narro

> A person must have the right to chose the terms of their own existence. I don't think this functions as a principle. It only seems like it applies very narrowly to the situation of ending one's life. People don't have a right to choose where, how, or to whom they're born. They don't get to select which aptitudes they have or where they struggle. There's very little they can do to change a great many things about their lives, but this doesn't strike us as a "violation of their rights" as much as "a fact of the human condition." I think you need an argument as to why the specific situation of choosing how and when to end one's life ought to be different. Death does come. When and how is (usually) not chosen by the person who dies. This seems like it's as much a part of the human condition as the randomness around being born.