Self-assisted suicide

Here's a subject we haven't seen in a while, but in addition to its intrinsic issues, it relates to other rights we have, or don't have, over our selves. Mill, by the way, talks about our connections to others as undermining the idea that we could harm ourselves without cost.

Why should there be a moral right to end your life? We own our own body. Our body is part of our private property. It is something that is ours; it is the thing par excellence that is our own. It is not common to several people and it cannot be given away. It cannot even be shared or communicated. It is the most private thing there is. Owning our body means that we are the master of it. Other people have no say in the use of our body; they should not use it, hurt it or force us to use it in a certain way. This underpins the security rights such as the right to life, the right to bodily integrity, and the prohibition of torture and slavery. But it also implies the right to self-determination, and therefore, the right to die. More...