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Debate

Euthanasia Debate: Counterpoint (I)

Joachim Jung’s reply to Tim Chappell.

Tim Chappell claims: “Since a person’s interests are all to do with developing and exercising these capacities and abilities, it follows that it is never in anyone’s interest to die. In fact, dying is the most extreme possible negation of anyone’s interests.” I doubt that one can take such a statement seriously in face of the fact that numerous people end their lives prematurely year after year. In the United States more than 50,000 people take their own lives every year. In Japan 37.

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