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    It is not the case that Individuals are morally permitted to end their own lives

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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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    • 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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