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Comment by jacquesm

21 hours ago

I'm not going to fault you for that, but no, you really can not sign away your right-to-life even with assisted death. The process is explicitly tooled around this to ensure that people's rights are not violated. I am not saying that there will never be a mistake made here or even that that has not possibly already happened but in principle your right-to-life is not violated by this procedure, and I realize that I will not be able to convince you otherwise.

That requires a complete re-thinking of your moral framework if you are not familiar with the concept.

Just like for some people gay marriage is inconceivable and results in them being ready to man the barricades and for others it doesn't even move the needle. And then there is abortion and bodily autonomy. Large swathes of humanity are not going to be able to understand the remainder when it comes to those subjects, they all arrive at their own conclusions through a mixture of tradition, religion, philosophy and cultural exposure (media, mostly) as well as peer pressure.

I've long ago decided that the only party that will hopefully be able to get all of those right using an objective frame of reference will be born a few thousand years from now, assuming humanity will make it that far.

> you really can not sign away your right-to-life even with assisted death. The process is explicitly tooled around this to ensure that people's rights are not violated

I’m saying that on a practical level the difference is unobservable. Part of your right to life, in this formulation, is your right to sign it away.

The terminality of a right to life makes it a poor comparison to privacy, which has no comparably-irreversible end state like death.