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Single Idea 18329
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
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Full Idea
We have no power to prevent ourselves being born: but we can rectify this error - for sometimes it is an error.
Gist of Idea
Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 8.36)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.88
The
24 ideas
with the same theme
[attitudes to a person taking their own life]:
5228
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A suicide embraces death to run away from hardships, rather than because it is a fine deed
[Aristotle]
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1831
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Wise men should partake of life even if they go blind
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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14520
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It is small-minded to find many good reasons for suicide
[Epicurus]
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3046
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Stoics say a wise man will commit suicide if he has a good enough reason
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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20858
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Suicide is reasonable, for one's country or friends, or because of very bad health
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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13298
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Suicide may be appropriate even when it is not urgent, if there are few reasons against it
[Seneca]
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13319
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If we control our own death, no one has power over us
[Seneca]
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13320
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Sometimes we have a duty not to commit suicide, for those we love
[Seneca]
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4854
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It is impossible that the necessity of a person's nature should produce a desire for non-existence
[Spinoza]
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4677
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If suicide is wrong because only God disposes of our lives, it must also be wrong to save lives
[Hume]
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19739
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The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory
[Kant]
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6188
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A permanent natural order could not universalise a rule permitting suicide
[Kant]
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21471
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If suicide was quick and easy, most people would have done it by now
[Schopenhauer]
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18329
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Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it
[Nietzsche]
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4678
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Absolute prohibitions are the essence of ethics, and suicide is the most obvious example
[Wittgenstein]
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23860
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Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last
[Weil]
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19610
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Religions see suicide as insubordination
[Cioran]
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19611
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No one has ever found a good argument against suicide
[Cioran]
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19609
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If you have not contemplated suicide, you are a miserable worm
[Cioran]
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23067
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Suicide is pointless, because it always comes too late
[Cioran]
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9248
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It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will
[Camus]
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7984
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Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored
[Baudrillard]
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4679
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One test for a worthwhile life is to assess the amount of life for which you would rather be unconscious
[Glover]
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7824
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If suicide is lawful, but assisting suicide is unlawful, powerless people are denied their rights
[Grayling]
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