Sometimes it's better to just die. Or so I've been told. And unless you haven't experienced the dark that some unfortunate people do, you nor I can really say otherwise, can we?
His reasons were not due to a lack of a will to live, but due to a desire not to harm others through burdening them with his debt. An ambulance ride alone can cost upwards of $800 in the US.
I agree. Death is always an option, and sometimes it's the best (equivalently "least bad") one. Despite the title, the article actually argues from the point of view that death is never an option. This is a harmful black-and-white view. If you assign effectively infinite disutility to death then you can no longer say, for instance, that a painful death is worse than a painless one. Surely we can all agree that this is the wrong way to go about decision-making.
