Comments on: Suicide Tourism: Landmark Deaths and Traveling to Die http://www.vagabondish.com/suicide-tourism-travel-tours/ The Travelzine for Today's Vagabond Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:48:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: JP Marat http://www.vagabondish.com/suicide-tourism-travel-tours/comment-page-1/#comment-9985 JP Marat Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:30:29 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/suicide-tourism-travel-tours/#comment-9985 The Ancient Greeks had a saying, "Count no man lucky until he is dead," meaning that only once a human life was finished could anyone be certain it would not have some monstrous misery in it. So you say you are 'lucky' not to have to consider the option of suicide tourism seriously, but don't assume that that will always be the case, since we all have to die some day, and many of the forms of death are terrible beyond the wildest imaginings of most people. I respect the fact that your article did not adopt the idiotically moralizing tone of most accounts of suicide tourism. However, I feel it was deficient in its failure seriously to explore the psychological state of those whose access to a painless death is cruelly delayed by laws which compel them to seek it through elaborate legal loopholes abroad. The Ancient Greeks had a saying, “Count no man lucky until he is dead,” meaning that only once a human life was finished could anyone be certain it would not have some monstrous misery in it. So you say you are ‘lucky’ not to have to consider the option of suicide tourism seriously, but don’t assume that that will always be the case, since we all have to die some day, and many of the forms of death are terrible beyond the wildest imaginings of most people.

I respect the fact that your article did not adopt the idiotically moralizing tone of most accounts of suicide tourism. However, I feel it was deficient in its failure seriously to explore the psychological state of those whose access to a painless death is cruelly delayed by laws which compel them to seek it through elaborate legal loopholes abroad.

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