Comments on: Suicide Tourism: Landmark Deaths and Traveling to Die http://www.vagabondish.com/suicide-tourism-travel-tours/ Dubious tips & essential ephemera for today's curious traveler Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: wedemay http://www.vagabondish.com/suicide-tourism-travel-tours/comment-page-1/#comment-16511 wedemay Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:46:11 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/suicide-tourism-travel-tours/#comment-16511 I agree with the analysis of the shortcomings of the article. It really does have some vast possibility's to explore the metaphor of traveling towards one death and how that is a journey we are all on. . . While i am considering suicide and suicide travel, Varanasi seems like an ideal place to end it especially if i can be cremated and have my ashes scattered in the Ganges. Mexico and other "3rd world" countries is also a convenient destination selling lethal drugs over the counter to many tourists. I agree with the analysis of the shortcomings of the article. It really does have some vast possibility’s to explore the metaphor of traveling towards one death and how that is a journey we are all on. . .

While i am considering suicide and suicide travel, Varanasi seems like an ideal place to end it especially if i can be cremated and have my ashes scattered in the Ganges.

Mexico and other “3rd world” countries is also a convenient destination selling lethal drugs over the counter to many tourists.

]]> 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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