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    Individuals are morally permitted to end their own lives — Carmelics
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    Individuals are morally permitted to end their own lives

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    • 1.Individuals own their own bodies
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    • 2.Property rights permit the owner to use, improve, and dispose of owned items as they wish
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    • 3.Disposing of one's body includes ending one's life
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    • 1.Human beings do not originate their own existence and thus lack the absolute sovereign authority over life that full property ownership requires.
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    • 2.Kant argues that using one's rational nature merely as a means—as suicide does by destroying the very subject of all value—violates the categorical imperative.
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    • 3.The self that would exercise the right to die is necessarily annihilated in its exercise, making suicide categorically unlike any other property disposal.
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    • 1.Persons are constituted by webs of relational obligations—to family, community, and dependents—that generate duties incompatible with unilateral self-destruction.
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    • 2.Durkheim's sociological analysis demonstrates that suicide rates correlate with social disintegration, suggesting the act is never purely self-regarding in Mill's sense.
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    • 3.An act with irreversible, non-consented harms to others cannot be shielded from moral evaluation by appeals to individual autonomy alone.
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    A popular basis supporting a right to suicide is the idea that we own our bodies and hence are morally permitted to dispose of them as we wish. (Recall from section 3.3 that some religious arguments for the impermissibility of suicide depend on God’s ownership of our bodies.) On this view, our relationship to our bodies is like that of our relationship to other items over which we enjoy property rights: Just as our having a right to a wristwatch permits us to use, improve, and dispose of it as
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