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To: Olog-hai

>There is no right to self-murder, assisted or otherwise.

Are not humans the ultimate owners of their own lives?


6 posted on 06/19/2017 11:20:39 AM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: Captain Compassion
No. And none of the Founding Fathers would say so. All life belongs to God.
7 posted on 06/19/2017 11:25:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Captain Compassion

Even ancient Greek pagans understood suicide to be a sin. Socrates, in ‘Phaedo’, says ‘any man who has the spirit of philosophy, will be willing to die; but he will not take his own life, for that is held to be unlawful’, because the gods ‘are the best of rulers’, and humans are owned by them.

Likewise, in the Jewish formulation of the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah, suicide is merely a type of prohibited murder.


8 posted on 06/19/2017 11:45:41 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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