Michel Houellebecq: "A civilization which legalizes euthanasia loses all rights to respect"

Proposal number 1

: nobody wants to die.

We generally prefer a diminished life to no life at all;

because there are still little joys.

Isn't life, almost by definition, a process of diminishment anyway?

And are there other joys than small joys (it would be worth digging into)?

Read also: The debate on euthanasia resurfaces in France

Proposition number 2: no one wants to suffer.

I hear, to suffer physically.

Moral suffering has its charms, we can even turn it into an aesthetic material (and I did not deprive myself of it).

Physical suffering is nothing but pure hell, devoid of interest or meaning, from which no lesson can be drawn.

Life could have been summarily (and falsely) described as a search for pleasure;

it is, much more surely, an avoidance of suffering;

and almost everyone, faced with an alternative between unbearable suffering and death, chooses death.

Proposition number 3, the most important: we can eliminate suffering

This article is for subscribers only.

You have 87% left to discover.

Subscribe: 1 € the first month

Can be canceled at any time

I ENJOY IT

Already subscribed?

Log in