At the moment, in Cape Town, there’s a man threatening to jump to his death. Some are calling for him to jump.
I jotted down some thoughts about why suicide can be moral, but why that’s not the same as being part of a crowd yelling for him to leap to his death. And also oppose those who claim life is always worth living.
A US sports analyst chartered his decision to commit suicide.
He didn’t have any of the usual reasons people commit suicide: ill-health, losing autonomy, etc; it was made rationally (as rationally as is possible in such circumstances), on his 60th birthday, and done to prevent any chance of deterioration.
After reading about, I recognised how it touched on a number of themes relating to social media, the way we document our lives, the way some have documented their deaths and what this could mean for reducing suicide and its stigma.
I examined it more in the Guardian.
(Comments are closed on it, unfortunately.)
