Re: suicide


Subject: Re: suicide
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 18:07:41 EST


In a message dated 2/25/00 3:10:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com writes:

<< The only reason this is "cowardace" is because of your hoi-poli lack
 respect for the individual. Suicide is the ultimate act of will.
 
    Existentialism condones suicide as does Transcendentialism (the Emerson
 Thoreau version). Islam promotes suicide for the Jihad, the ultimate
 sacrifice for the cause and a first class ticket to heaven. Japanese WWII
 pilots (well I really shouldn't have to say anymore about that).
 
    Suicide is a personal decision. And it takes a hell of a lot more
 courage to take a knife to your throat, or pull a trigger, than it does to
 put the gun down. It's only popular double-talk that says otherwise.
 
 free your mind,
 
 -j >>

You think I've never read existentialist authors?

It's easier to die than to live. Seems to me suicide is the ultimate form of
bad faith. Especially if it's motivated by pressures from those around you.

Pull your head out :)

Jim
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