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Suicide (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a choice. He who does not accept and respect the choice to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Suicide (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a fundamental human right, which does not mean that is it morally desirable, only that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a person's decision to commit this act.

Suicide (n.) would ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be called ‘self-determined death’ if we valued medical self-responsibility more and dependence on medical authority less.

Suicide (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠more like a treatment than the disease we tend to take it as: it is the only effective remedy against what sometimes ails people - namely, the necessity to go on living.

Suicide (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠offensive not because one (allegedly) wants to die, which is one's inalienable right, but because he involves the public in what ought to be a private act; similar to that of the exhibitionist who, like every man, has an inalienable right to his penis, but not to exhibit it in public.

Suicide (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the only literal escape from a life sentence.