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    It is not the case that A person may have a duty to die in order to relieve family members or loved ones of burdens imposed by that person's continued living.

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    • 1.Duties arise from voluntary obligations or universal moral law, not from the mere fact of being a causal burden on others.
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    • 2.Kant's categorical imperative cannot universalize a maxim requiring death to relieve others, as it instrumentalizes persons as means to familial convenience.
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    • 3.If burden-imposition generated duties to die, then disabled, elderly, and dependent persons would systematically bear lethal obligations, violating their equal moral standing.
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    • 1.John Hardwig's burden-based duty to die conflates the loved ones' interest in relief with a moral claim that overrides the patient's right to continued existence.
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    • 2.Family members who experience care as burdensome retain the option of withdrawing care voluntarily, so the burden is contingent on their choices, not solely the patient's continued living.
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    • 3.Grounding a duty to die in relational burdens makes the duty's existence dependent on the emotional and financial circumstances of others, producing morally arbitrary obligations.
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    • 1.Continuing to live can impose sufficiently great burdens on family members or loved ones.
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    • 2.Fairness requires that a person not impose unreasonable burdens on others.
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    • 3.When the burdens imposed on others by continuing to live are sufficiently great, fairness grounds a duty to die.
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