Now let’s explore what it may look like for people to actually die with honor, dignity, and peace—particularly for mature, healthy, and competent persons who are resolved to depart. By justice, liberty, and human dignity, such individuals ought to have access to safe and responsible options for departure—without facing excessive barriers from the medical system—if…
“So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many, you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar. Whatever you do or avoid, let it be guided not by public approval or blame, but by reason, the divine spark within.” — Julian the Apostate
One of the most fundamental reasons…
“In the case of depressive realism, the philosophical pessimism most closely associated with Schopenhauer may be its natural home.” —Colin Feltham
They move along the street with blank faces, eyes forward, minds elsewhere. Shadows stretch long behind them, and the fading light casts everything in a sickly pallor. It’s not fear exactly—more like a…
“What makes the horror genre so exciting and unstoppable is its capacity for metaphorical exploration. It’s the safe place that we, as a culture, can deal with things that upset and frighten us—the darker side of our nature.” — Mike Flanagan
Although trauma is often cast as a destructive force—fracturing the psyche and distorting…
