We Just Don’t Know
BBC NEWS | Europe | French euthanasia-row woman dies
The woman said suicide was needed to end her suffering. At this point we can’t say how she died, and it’s possible she found some way of killing herself. (People do, after all, commit suicide without assistance all the time.) However, it strikes me that in the absence of an indication of suicide, the counter to her point has been proven. We just don’t know how long our lives will be, and these medical decisions based upon emotional arguments fall down because they assume that we do know.
We humans need a whole lot more humility in dealing with ourselves than is our custom, because we show ourselves to be ignorant way too often.
