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Suicide

I'm about to take up a position which is going to be deamed by some, if not all, as a terrible stand to take. As a matter of fact, if anyone were to agree with me on ths subject, I'd be surprsed. For you see, rather than arguing from the postion of being an unjustified and inane way to die, I shall argue the other point. That being does have its merits.
Before you people start screaming, hear my case out. Most people argue that nothing justifies the taking of someone's life. Yet what makes life so valuable? Why do people cling to it so? All we consist of is a bunch of carbon atoms, bound together to form an exoskeleton, organs, and tissue. In this light, there really is not much to ...

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people who want to prevent , is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this? They do not have to put up with the same stuff the victim does everyday. How could they possibly know what the potential victim feels. Just as a severely burned victim may wish to be allowed to die in peace, the victim wishes the same. To die in peace with no argument from others. The argument of "look at the people you will hurt" also does not hold. Imidiate family members will be the only ones to suffer any great pain. Friends will go on with thier lives and in time forget about the death. Imidiate family too will forget the loss in time. Although it will take most considerably longer for them than it will for friends.
Finaly, the argument of being selfish is hard to grasp. Selfish in whose eyes? Certainly not the eyes of the victim. To them, they consider it selfish of others to try and preserve their life. Again, the argument of the stoppers don't know what the victim has to go ...

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Added: 4/30/2007 12:39:57 PM
Category: Political Science
Type: Free Paper
Words: 529
Pages: 2

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