I wish I had used this scene from Hamlet Act V, scene I in my argument for why VSED does not constitute assisted suicide.
GRAVEDIGGER
Is she to be buried in Christian burial when she willfully seeks her
own salvation?
OTHER
I tell thee she is. Therefore make her grave straight. The crowner hath
sat on her and finds it Christian burial.
GRAVEDIGGER
How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defense?
OTHER
Why, ’tis found so.
GRAVEDIGGER
It must be se offendendo. It cannot be else. For here lies the point:
if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act. And an act hath three
branches—it is to act, to do, to perform. Argal, she drowned herself wittingly.
OTHER
Nay, but hear you, Goodman Delver—
GRAVEDIGGER
Give me leave. Here lies the water. Good. Here stands the man. Good. If
the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he goes.
Mark you that. But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself.
Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
OTHER
But is this law?
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