r/MurderedByWords • u/godsafraud • Sep 10 '18

Murder Is it really just your body?

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u/Necrophillip Sep 10 '18

But on the other hand that autonomy isn't granted once someone wishes to take their own life. The moment we learn about their urge to die we basically prohibit them from doing so, so we're not that absolute with granting autonomy.

There's also that weird question when you want to start granting that embryo some sort of rights (but that's not a path I'll go down)

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '18

So a corpse has more rights over its body than someone who wants to be a corpse :thinking: 10/10 system we live in

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u/figure--it--out Sep 11 '18

Well, a corpse can't decide to kill itself the just as a suicidal person can't, and it's just as illegal to take organs without consent from a dead person as a suicidal one, so it's more like they have the same rights

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u/DeedTheInky Sep 11 '18

Dead people aren't allowed to drive tho

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u/spyridonas Sep 11 '18

I'm sure if they pass the test they are, legally speaking, allowed to drive. (If the current license has expired).

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u/cavelioness Sep 11 '18

They're allowed, just you never see any of them doing it for some reason.