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Elder Statesman
The secret agent, captured and about to be tortured for vital information, bites the cyanide capsule before they can be questioned...
Justified?
The trapped worker in the World Trade center, above the flames, smoke surrounding them, with no way out, the decision to stay and burn or jump...
Justified?
The "terminal" patient, knowing there is nothing but pain and expense ahead for a few brief days or weeks of life...
Justified?
The grandfather who gets the diagnosis: his fading memory and competence is Alzheimer's, but his body is in good health. Does he subject his children and grandchildren to years of a fading personality, constant care, a drain on the legacy he wanted to leave them?
Justified?
The young person in angst, the heartbreak or the fear of coming out or the social isolation that never seems to end. Never a moment of happiness, and everyone around them seems to hate them or wish they would go away...
Justified?
The bi-polar, or the manic-depressive, or the marginally sane/insane person, watching their control slip, worried about their impulses. If they take themselves out first, then maybe those voices saying to kill everyone else will go away...and no one else will have to "pay" for their illness? Plus, then they go on "their terms".
Justified?
The 90th birthday. Alone, no more financial resources, bereft of spouse and friends, ignored by the rest. Why not?
Justified?
We have euthanasia laws. But how far to we let them go?
Justified?
The trapped worker in the World Trade center, above the flames, smoke surrounding them, with no way out, the decision to stay and burn or jump...
Justified?
The "terminal" patient, knowing there is nothing but pain and expense ahead for a few brief days or weeks of life...
Justified?
The grandfather who gets the diagnosis: his fading memory and competence is Alzheimer's, but his body is in good health. Does he subject his children and grandchildren to years of a fading personality, constant care, a drain on the legacy he wanted to leave them?
Justified?
The young person in angst, the heartbreak or the fear of coming out or the social isolation that never seems to end. Never a moment of happiness, and everyone around them seems to hate them or wish they would go away...
Justified?
The bi-polar, or the manic-depressive, or the marginally sane/insane person, watching their control slip, worried about their impulses. If they take themselves out first, then maybe those voices saying to kill everyone else will go away...and no one else will have to "pay" for their illness? Plus, then they go on "their terms".
Justified?
The 90th birthday. Alone, no more financial resources, bereft of spouse and friends, ignored by the rest. Why not?
Justified?
We have euthanasia laws. But how far to we let them go?