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    Suicide is morally impermissible — Carmelics
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    Suicide is morally impermissible

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    • 1.God has created natural laws to govern the natural world and human existence
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    • 2.Suicide violates the natural causal order established by those laws
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    • 1.Hume argued in 'Of Suicide' that redirecting rivers and altering nature are not impious, so disturbing natural causation is not inherently wrong.
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    • 2.Individual rational autonomy over one's own life and death is a foundational moral claim recognized across Stoic, Kantian, and liberal traditions.
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    • 3.A moral prohibition requiring an agent to endure extreme suffering without consent imposes an external authority that overrides self-determination without adequate justification.
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    • 1.Natural events like disease and predation also violate bodily integrity, yet we do not deem medical intervention against them impermissible.
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    • 2.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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    Two general categories of arguments for the moral impermissibility of suicide have emerged from the Christian religious tradition. The first of these is the aforementioned Thomistic natural law position, critiqued by Hume (see section 2.3) According to this tradition, suicide violates the natural law God has created to govern the natural world and human existence. This natural law can be conceived of in terms of (a) natural causal laws, such that suicide violates this causal order, (b) teleolo
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    Suicide violates the natural causal order established by those laws
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