[Ars Philosopha] | On Suicide, by Clancy Martin | Harper's Magazine

[Ars Philosopha] | On Suicide, by Clancy Martin | Harper's Magazine:

"That self-destruction should be morally blameworthy because of its selfishness is, if not paradoxical, at least a bit odd. After all, if there is one thing I am entitled to as a human being, only one right I am permitted, it ought to be the right to life: this right, it has often been argued, is a kind of necessary precondition for any other right one might claim. But does it make sense to say that I have the right to life if I don’t have the right to end it when and as I choose?"

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