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    It is not the case that Suicide can constitute a violation of role obligations applicable to spouses, parents, caretakers, and loved ones

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    • 1.Role obligations are grounded in ongoing relational capacity; a person in terminal suffering or severe mental illness may already be unable to fulfill those roles.
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    • 2.An obligation that cannot be discharged without condemning an agent to unbearable suffering exceeds the legitimate scope of role-based moral demands.
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    • 3.Therefore, the existence of dependents does not automatically generate an obligation to continue living if the agent lacks the capacity to meaningfully fulfill the role.
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    • 1.Mill and later liberals argue that self-regarding acts, including choices about one's own death, fall outside the domain where others' interests generate enforceable obligations.
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    • 2.The harm to dependents from suicide is contingent and indirect, distinguishable from direct violations like abandonment or breach of contract recognized in deontological frameworks.
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    • 3.Conflating grief-based harm with role-obligation violation improperly expands the scope of duty in ways Kant himself resisted, since Kant grounded the suicide prohibition in duties to self, not to others.
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    • 1.Suicide can cause clear economic or material harm when the suicidal person leaves behind dependents unable to support themselves financially
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    • 2.Spouses, parents, caretakers, and loved ones have distinctive obligations to those who depend on them
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