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KB824

KB824

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king Ale said:
No, committing a suicide is one of the most selfish human acts in my opinion. If the guy is serving life in prison without parole and is motivated to improve his daughter's situation, then there's absolutely no aspect of selflessness in that.
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Hypothetical situation. Let's say that I, at the age of 47, am suddenly afflicted with ALS. And given my age and previous health issues, this will cause my body to deteriorate much faster. Say, I have at most 18 months to live, and during those 18 months I will quickly become a shell of my former self, burden my wife and family with the financial and emotional challenges of what this disease will become, and I will no longer have the capacity to do anything. There is no cure, and the fatality rate is 100%. I am absolutely guaranteed that I am going to die.


I say "Fuck it." I have life insurance, I have a pension, a 401K, that can all go towards helping my wife to not only pay off all of our bills, but to help secure a financial future for her and my son. Funds that would have otherwise been used to try and keep me comfortable in a no-win situation.

All I would need to do is end my life. Is that selfish? Keeping in mind that I did not choose to contract ALS, but Aaron Hernandez chose to commit those violent acts. And for someone who is a Catholic and knows all too well about the sin of suicide and how you don't go to heaven. Well I would rather be in hell than have my wife and son go through the same thing on earth if that is what it took.

Edit- And for the record, no, this is not an announcement that I have ALS. I was just trying to use that crippling disease as an example
 

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King of Kings said:
Hypothetical situation. Let's say that I, at the age of 47, am suddenly afflicted with ALS. And given my age and previous health issues, this will cause my body to deteriorate much faster. Say, I have at most 18 months to live, and during those 18 months I will quickly become a shell of my former self, burden my wife and family with the financial and emotional challenges of what this disease will become, and I will no longer have the capacity to do anything. There is no cure, and the fatality rate is 100%. I am absolutely guaranteed that I am going to die.


I say "Fuck it." I have life insurance, I have a pension, a 401K, that can all go towards helping my wife to not only pay off all of our bills, but to help secure a financial future for her and my son. Funds that would have otherwise been used to try and keep me comfortable in a no-win situation.

All I would need to do is end my life. Is that selfish? Keeping in mind that I did not choose to contract ALS, but Aaron Hernandez chose to commit those violent acts. And for someone who is a Catholic and knows all too well about the sin of suicide and how you don't go to heaven. Well I would rather be in hell than have my wife and son go through the same thing on earth if that is what it took.

Edit- And for the record, no, this is not an announcement that I have ALS. I was just trying to use that crippling disease as an example
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I'm sorry to hear about your ALS. :rab:
 
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king Ale said:
No, committing a suicide is one of the most selfish human acts in my opinion. If the guy is serving life in prison without parole and is motivated to improve his daughter's situation, then there's absolutely no aspect of selflessness in that.
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It is to an outsider. For an insider, you could make the self-defense argument. People in massively depressive funks aren't thinking about others and barely about themselves.

King of Kings said:
Hypothetical situation. Let's say that I, at the age of 47, am suddenly afflicted with ALS. And given my age and previous health issues, this will cause my body to deteriorate much faster. Say, I have at most 18 months to live, and during those 18 months I will quickly become a shell of my former self, burden my wife and family with the financial and emotional challenges of what this disease will become, and I will no longer have the capacity to do anything. There is no cure, and the fatality rate is 100%. I am absolutely guaranteed that I am going to die.


I say "Fuck it." I have life insurance, I have a pension, a 401K, that can all go towards helping my wife to not only pay off all of our bills, but to help secure a financial future for her and my son. Funds that would have otherwise been used to try and keep me comfortable in a no-win situation.

All I would need to do is end my life. Is that selfish? Keeping in mind that I did not choose to contract ALS, but Aaron Hernandez chose to commit those violent acts. And for someone who is a Catholic and knows all too well about the sin of suicide and how you don't go to heaven. Well I would rather be in hell than have my wife and son go through the same thing on earth if that is what it took.

Edit- And for the record, no, this is not an announcement that I have ALS. I was just trying to use that crippling disease as an example
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Whew. Thanks for that final paragraph, brother. You had me worried there for a moment. :touched:

lgorTudor said:
happy birthday hitler
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:lol: 420 and is it any wonder I love the Tuz.

Dostoevsky said:
First Trump and now Marine Le Pen.

What a crazy world.

Last night when I was about to leave work those fuckers decided to murder in Paris. Jesus Christ, they couldn't even set the timing right.
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Shit. They're blowing up soccer buses over stock options.
 
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