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Sometimes the ignorance from the fact or inability to listen to one’s conscience is considered to be a blessing. Jocasta and Lady Macbeth would never commit suicide and would remain in their senses, would they not felt about their illicit actions of incest and murder respectively, but once they’ve realization of their wrong deeds, their conscience start blaming them, feeling the burden of guilt and shame. “To feel shame, one has to compare one’s behavior against standards in which one has come to believe as a result of socialization.” (Lester 352) this feeling of shame in itself is ‘self-killing’ i.e. suicide, for both the Queens, they have sense that hoe they have fallen not only from morality but also lost the quality and nobility of their royal status.
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Roman stoic Seneca, who himself was compelled to commit suicide, is of view that mere living is not good but living well is important too. A person who is wise enough, lives as long as he ought, not as long as he can. “Then is it sin/ to rush into secret house of death, / ere death comes to us?” (Shakespeare et al. 754) this question appears quite rhetorical. It can be applied in case of Jocasta, if she would continue to live despite of realization of all this truth, either Oedipus would kill her or people’s harsh comments on her stained character would cause her death.
As presented in ‘death with dignity’ movement, the right to suicide is natural corollary of right to life. Because individuals have right not to be killed by others, the only person with moral right to determine circumstances of a person’s death is that person himself. “Given that Muslim religious culture abhors innovations, one is compelled to ask… justification accounts for the
Sometimes the ignorance from the fact or inability to listen to one’s conscience is considered to be a blessing. Jocasta and Lady Macbeth would never commit suicide and would remain in their senses, would they not felt about their illicit actions of incest and murder respectively, but once they’ve realization of their wrong deeds, their conscience start blaming them, feeling the burden of guilt and shame. “To feel shame, one has to compare one’s behavior against standards in which one has come to believe as a result of socialization.” (Lester 352) this feeling of shame in itself is ‘self-killing’ i.e. suicide, for both the Queens, they have sense that hoe they have fallen not only from morality but also lost the quality and nobility of their royal status.
To sacrifice or end one’s life is as worthy as to give …show more content…
Roman stoic Seneca, who himself was compelled to commit suicide, is of view that mere living is not good but living well is important too. A person who is wise enough, lives as long as he ought, not as long as he can. “Then is it sin/ to rush into secret house of death, / ere death comes to us?” (Shakespeare et al. 754) this question appears quite rhetorical. It can be applied in case of Jocasta, if she would continue to live despite of realization of all this truth, either Oedipus would kill her or people’s harsh comments on her stained character would cause her death.
As presented in ‘death with dignity’ movement, the right to suicide is natural corollary of right to life. Because individuals have right not to be killed by others, the only person with moral right to determine circumstances of a person’s death is that person himself. “Given that Muslim religious culture abhors innovations, one is compelled to ask… justification accounts for the