Every time I see an article like this, it advances the "principle" that your own death has no effect on anybody else in the world.
Never have I seen this justified in any plausible sense.
Never have I seen this justified in any plausible sense.
It's not that that value is incoherent or anything—it's actually not a bad idea in isolation—it's just that we seem to value self-determination strictly more.
Not to mention they can, and do, find all kinds of other ways to kill themselves, both accidentally and intentionally--and almost none of those are regulated in a similar fashion.