The article “Why I Hope to Die at 75” by Ezekiel Emmanuel makes a confrontational argument which states that life after seventy-five is not worthy living and endorsed massively to the negative views of age that trends our society today. There is only one thing wrong with dying and that is doing it when you don’t want to, and it is not intellectually stimulating for people to fix their death after 75. Everyone should be against deciding to die when they are 75 old because people can transform their life expectancy a lot in earlier years and still have enough time to add financial, moral and social to their families and societies.
First, there is nothing wrong with dying when you don’t want to. But that doesn’t mean that it’s always a good idea to want to, particularly when that longed for death is relatively far in the future. The most important reason why it is not intellectually stimulating for people to die after 18 years is that people can change a lot in eighteen years. Besides, the experiential indication, when it is clear that people must confront further the prospect of death, for
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That doesn’t seem a bad idea, better than using modern medicine to extend old age, which Emanuel thinks only leads to a lengthier period of illness and dysfunction. Absurdly, he is still actively opposed to decriminalizing euthanasia and physician assisted dying. It is absurd because as his associate theorist Elizabeth Anscombe recommended, “The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.” It’s absurd, not to say possibly overwhelming to want, hope or to prefer dying at 75, but be in contradiction of to the point of frustrating to ensure that it remains forbidden to realize the hope for consequence, but by rejecting healthcare which disgracefully may not achieve the desired result. Strange sort of