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Old 02-15-2003, 09:02 PM   #1
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What gives sentient beings the privilege to prolong their life by their own means?

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the ability to do it.
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What gives sentient beings the privilege to prolong their life by their own means?
They have the power, and also they have a fear of death, so almost everything they do is motivated by that fear.

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I thought that death was liberty's final frontier. After all, it is the one irrevocable act.
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Oh, nevermind...

(I thought it was something like a soul weave
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Euthanasia! If I can no longer use any of my faculty, I would like you to assist in my suicide.
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Euthanasia! If I can no longer use any of my faculty, I would like you to assist in my suicide.
I consider your request honorable.
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is it the desire/compulsion of a single living cell to go on and the collective of several cells to go on and on and on.

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