Recently, I was discussing suicide with a new acquaintance. He was surprisingly open about his views, which, as it happened, largely coincided with my own.
The conversation then turned to the question of assisted suicide.
I proffered the opinion that, if someone was, say, standing on a precipice and about to leap to their death, I had an obligation to try to stop them. My acquaintance agreed, but qualified his answer by offering the example of someone who was severely disabled, such as…
