> "Your character can never be essentially injured except by your own acts."
If only this were true, we would not need laws against defamation.
If only this were true, we would not need laws against defamation.
Nothing except serious illness.
Involuntarily vomiting your guts out is not dignified. Being paranoid and acting on your bizarre delusions is not dignified. Ranting on and on about the same things every few minutes because your short-term memory is gone is not dignified.
Maybe your definition is different from mine. Try to apply it the next time you see and smell a homeless person mumbling to themselves in public.
However, with something like disease that leaves your mind unharmed, I suppose the dignified way to go is assisted suicide, though honestly I probably wouldn't choose to act with dignity in that situation. Though it's clear that many people do, since assisted suicide is even a topic.