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    Challenges→Suicide is morally impermissible

    If overriding natural causal processes is permissible when preserving life, the natural law framework cannot coherently prohibit overriding them when ending it.

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    • 1.Natural law permits medical intervention (surgery, antibiotics) that overrides natural causal processes to preserve life.
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    • 2.If the moral permissibility of overriding nature depends on outcomes (preserving life), then the outcome alone—not the intervention itself—grounds the permission.
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    • 3.Ending suffering through assisted death produces comparable outcomes to ending infection through antibiotics: alleviating harm.
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    • 1.Natural law distinguishes between removing obstacles to natural functioning (healing) and actively terminating natural processes (killing).
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    • 2.Preserving life aligns with the fundamental natural inclination toward self-preservation; ending it directly contradicts this inclination.
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    • 3.Permission to override natural processes may be limited to restoring natural function, not redirecting it toward novel ends like death.
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