Consider the following scenarios; in each case, do you think it would be morally harmful, beneficial or neutral for the individual to die? (Note, to die meaning "unaided loss of life", distinct from "ending the persons life").
What external and personal factors have you taken into consideration?
- (1) Someone in severe pain which cannot be lessened, or can only be lessened in such a way that she is left in a stupor.
- (2) A university student who has just ̳set out‘ in life.
- (3) A 90-year old, who has had a family and/or a career, and has been a success at both; but she‘s ready to die.
(4) A university student who has been ̳dumped‘ by his girlfriend, leaving him ready to die.
- (5) A 90-year old man, who has just married for the first time (say, a 25-year-old woman) and has just started to build a family, after devoting many years to his career.
- (6) A 50-year old, former television executive, who has had a severe accident which has left her with the mind of a 3-year-old. She‘s happy — as a three-year-old, though.
(7) A woman has a fairly normal life — a family, a career, etc. — but while her husband, and eventually her children, grow old and die around her, she just continues to get older, up to age 110 and beyond.
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