selfish suicide
Finally. In tonight's Emmerdale episode Hazel, whose son Jackson demanded that she and his boyfriend Aaron should help him to commit suicide, has started to talk about being angry with him. 'For what he did to himself, for what he's done to us.' It's been on my mind to write on this comm about how this story has got me thinking, about how selfish suicide is. There was so much emphasis on giving Jackson what he wanted. But who says that being disabled gives a person the moral right to have what phe wants? To mess up other people's lives? In the story Aaron is now facing a murder charge despite Jackson's video of himself describing how much he wanted to die.
And what does it mean to say that a person is 'of sound mind'? I'm slowly watching my way through Terry Pratchett's documentary 'Choosing to Die' and I notice how he brings up this question. How 'sound' is the mind of a person with Altzheimer's? How sound was the fictional Jackson's mind when he became depressed after the accident that made him tetraplegic? There are legal and medical definitions of 'sound mind' but I'm far from expert on those and I wonder how applicable they'd be to the question of assisted suicide.
And what does it mean to say that a person is 'of sound mind'? I'm slowly watching my way through Terry Pratchett's documentary 'Choosing to Die' and I notice how he brings up this question. How 'sound' is the mind of a person with Altzheimer's? How sound was the fictional Jackson's mind when he became depressed after the accident that made him tetraplegic? There are legal and medical definitions of 'sound mind' but I'm far from expert on those and I wonder how applicable they'd be to the question of assisted suicide.