Corresponsibility: What´s A Non-Terminal Individual?

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Correspondingly, a non-terminal individual (i.e. pain, disability, depression, free choice, etc.) have the same right to choose whether to end their life or not as a terminal-ill individual. But, there are factors involved that maybe cause those feelings for non-terminal individuals. For example, in most drug-related cases, drugs can cause an individual a temporary happiness or satisfaction until that first high is gone. Then that individual life spiral out of control searching for that first high henceforth falling into a deep depression of contemplating committing suicide because of that reason alone. In the same fashion, Kant would state that “although it may be a difficult decision, accepting someone’s wishes to end their hurt is the morally

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