Thứ Ba, 25 tháng 12, 2012

Legality of VSED - VRFF




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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