Re: Mork Calling Orson
> Probably about the same time we finally realize that suicide is a perfectly normal
> impulse/thought/wish to have and a sacred human right to carry out if one wishes to.
And the depression, is normal too? Perhaps we shouldn't do anything to upset the "normal" course of events by helping people out of such a state.
Anytime someone argues that the degrading and destruction of human life is a normal (implying "ok") thing, I get more than annoyed. What about the crushing misery he has left in his wake for his wife and children? I'm reasonably sure his family do not think that his death is either ok or normal. Death is not ok, it is an unwelcome intrusion into life. Depression is an unwelcome burden on life. The turning of a human being into something non-human is to be fought against. To portray suicide as acceptable is to devalue that human's life.
Accepting suicide also has practical ethical issues. It places an unacceptable burden on the those who cannot carry their own weight in society.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
