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    The aged and others who have made substantial contributio... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The aged or others who have already made substantial contributions to societal welfare would be morally permitted to engage in suicide

    The aged and others who have made substantial contributions have already discharged their societal obligations

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    A modification of this argument claims that suicide violates a person’s duty of reciprocity to society (Cholbi 2011, 60–62). On this view, an individual and the society in which she lives stand in a reciprocal relationship such that in exchange for the goods the society has provided to the individual, the individual must continue to live in order to provide her society with the goods that relationship demands. Yet in envisioning the relationship between society and the individual as quasi-contra

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