Wed 18 Nov 2009 Euthanasia, Suicide and Immortality: the Live-ers and the
Die-ers (Ian Woolf)
"I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before
his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge
that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness,
everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain
standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity,
it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and
live! Life, whatever it may be!" - from Part II Chapter VI Crime and
Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Most people expect that since religion-followers are against suicide and
euthanasia, that non-believers would all be against them also. I argue that
humans appear divided between those who agree with Dostoevsky, and those who
disagree, regardless of disbelief in religion; and that there is a rational
and compassionate argument against euthanasia and suicide.
Time and Place for Philorum Group @ Central
1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month.
18:15 for a 18:30 Start. Finish 21:30
(Feel free to come and go at any point during the night.)
The Members Bar, Floor 1
(Keep winding up to the top of the stairs.)
The Gaelic Club
64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills
Sydney, Australia
(100 metres from a Central railway station exit.)
Cost: Free (Patronise the bar).
http://www.philorum.org/centralFutureCalendar.html
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