I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)
Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.
With death comes a choice. And death is a choice.
If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.
As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.
