Re: Mother commits suicide at same spot as her only daughter
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But you should LIVE, and find happiness, and let them be happy at that. If you have had loving, supportive parents and you're not suffering any unconquerable mental illness, you do not have the right to kill yourself.
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You can make this point over and over but you keep ignoring the fact that she didn't ask for life so why is she obligated to keep it?
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Because that point's facile and beneath contempt. None of us chose to be born; yet, finding ourselves alive, we all live by codes of rules set by our friends, families, society and government.
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A social contract such as the one you describe, however, suggests that the person voluntarily enters into it -- by choosing to live in society. You're not giving them the ability to opt out.
-McGee
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