Re: <nettime> The Vegetative Prince Will Not Wake Up: Dutch Prince Friso medical ethics and the ordeal of social inequality

[Murray Simpson <m.k.simpson@dundee.ac.uk>]

It seems unlikely to me that the issue is so straightforward.

The religious and cultural prohibitions around suicide are very old  .
Euthanasia is a C.20th issue                                         .

That's not to say that the two don't connect, but it's more than just
a reformulation of the suicide issue.

On 02/09/2012 02:16, "Morlock Elloi" <morlockelloi@yahoo.com> wrote:


>Eutanasia is euphemism for the transgression of the popular taboos
>regarding suicide.
>
>The general public's inability to deal with the concept of suicide
>breaks down when it become obvious, all the way down to the lowest
>cretins, that the poor thing is suffering too much, an if the
>poor thing had not been subjected to the lifelong life-worship
>brainwashing, it may have offed itself long time ago.




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