Who's Going to Stop You?

Imagine a person who rationally decides to end their life. Perhaps due to physical infirmity or pain. If they were chronically depresssed and lonely, one might argue that they shouldn't be allowed to take their own life;

Take their own life? Who's to stop them?

Jail them! Lock them in chains forever! Guess what? They are going to die anyway!!!

Anyway, back to our story:

Imagine this rational person, who for reasons of their own, decide that they wish to take control of their life and end it when they choose. Now imagine, they, like you, suffer from periods of highs and lows.

An irrational person might choose to end their life when it is most bleak, but a rational person will know that following any low there will ultimately be a high and they will wait until they are able to 'rationally' consider their choice to take their own life.

What can a person be suffering that is so great that at time they might generally consider to be one of their best, they choose to end their life? And who are we to make any kind of judgement on them for this decision?

It is difficult for me to accept that we have done so little, in terms of social evolution, to become something other than worms.