Contrary to most of my philosopher friends to whom the mainstream press willingly gave the floor in preference to those who were not in line, I am and remain firmly opposed to legalizing assisted suicide, as in Switzerland. in the case of people who are neither physically ill nor at the end of life.
I am well aware of the reasoning of our materialists: if there is no longer an "after", if homo
democraticus
no longer believes in the possibility of a radiant future on earth as in heaven and if, in these conditions, the calculation of pleasures and pains has become his one and only compass to assess the meaning of a life, by what right would one prevent this individual drunk on freedom from resorting to assisted suicide?
And why not with the help of a doctor to put an end to his existence if the faculty teaches him one day that his sufferings, were they only psychic, are now likely to outweigh the moments of joy?
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It is indeed in these terms that the
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