ERNEST HEMINGWAY - Did The Second Amendment Protect His Right To Die?

https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 2nd July, 2023, American time | Ozguy1945

[Ozguy1945]

Facing Suicide.

"The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places."

So wrote Ernest Hemingway in Farewell To Arms (1929)

Hemingway lived most of his life as an outstanding outdoorsman whose understated economical literary style was male to the core.

Like his physician father before him, Hemingway died by suicide on July 2nd, 1961.

"What is the sense of ruining my head" he said of the ECT treatment in his final year that left him a wreck, "and erasing my memory, which is capital, and putting me out of business? It was a brilliant cure, but we lost the patient."

Six months later, Heminway used his favourite shotgun to end his life.

Many American conservatives hold it as an article of faith that their Second Constitutional Amendment, the right to bear arms, protects their freedom.

Does this include the autonomous right to legitimately decide when to end your own life?

Or is suicide a sin?

[reasonisfaith]

Another way to think of it: you are not an object given to yourself.

[Ozguy1945]

“After a modest amount of careful thinking, to claim your life is your own seems rather absurd.”

and

““Is your own life your own?”

Not in the sense that your shirt is your own, or your house, or that dollar bill.”

thank you for this thoughtfulness .......

[Ozguy1945]

good points

humane