Status Updates From The Future of Assisted Suic...

“There the Court confronted Virginia’s Eugenical Sterilization Act, which permitted the sterilization of inmates of state institutions who were found to suffer from hereditary insanity or imbecility. Carrie Buck, a teenager, was selected by the state to be the first person sterilized under the new law.” (34).

“So too, Aquinas seems to suggest in the suicide context: the act is harmful to the basic good of human life insofar as it is taken rationally …unintended self-homicides … from mental illness, depression, duress, fear, grief, or anger, might fall into a different moral category, and they are not, to Aquinas, always morally wrongful.” (28).

Author is referencing a ton of ancient scholars which is dope. Also ancient punishments and instances of suicide.

I hate the argument that because there is no law in history regarding this it’s not constitutional. Like, we live in the present. Leave it to old guys to want to stay in the past. Times are changing people, the law needs to keep up.

Gorsuch does a good job of laying out the structure and purpose of the argument he’s making. I also learned about a book written called Final Exit, which outlines various methods of “self deliverance” which is interesting.