Kant claims that suicide does not follow the principles of universality and therefore is not moral. I disagree because the goals of suicide are still possible if the action was applied universally. The principles of universality claim that if the maxim, the intentions of an action, is still possible if the action is universalized, then the action is moral. In this case, suicide, Kant claims that it doesn’t work. If someone’s maxim is to kill themselves to avoid a torturous, terminal illness, and everyone in the world killed themselves, there is no reason why the personal cannot still commit suicide to avoid their torturous, terminal illness. I think it would actually be easier to commit suicide if everyone else did so as well. There would
