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suicide is immoral?
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But not so quick!
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Even though it's true that normally death is a bad thing,
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it's not always a bad thing.
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This is the sort of thing that we've learned by thinking about
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what does the badness of death consist in.
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Typical cases are ones in which
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the person's dying robs them of a chunk of life
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that would've been good for them overall,
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and because of that dying then is bad for them.
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But in the kinds of cases that we're thinking about,
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cases where suicide would be rationally acceptable,