Americans are living longer than ever before, living with chronic pain and suffe

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Americans are living longer than ever before, living with chronic pain and suffering that might not, at least for some, make that life worth living. The example of Admiral Nimitz and his wife, for example, is one of two people of sound mind choosing to end their lives. Can suicide be morally justified in such circumstances, or do people have an obligation to continue living? Defend your position. If you believe people have an obligation to continue living, where does it come from? To whom is that obligation owed? If you believe that suffering justifies suicide in old age, what other contexts are there in which you think suicide is morally justifiable?

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Suicide is not morally justified in any age for any reason but for rare of the rarest cases where euthanasia id permitted . It is unjustified as a human body has to live as long as a natural death does not come . Admiral and his wife attempted suicide can not be glorified and as Americans it is our duty to create enough social support system to not let such people feel secluded and left alone to take an extreme step like this . Somewhere our social system has failed in creating enough space for socialization . We have become more machine oriented and institution oriented like old age homes , hospital etc. and have lost neighborhood support system over the generations. It is the responsibility of government and society to protect people from such extreme steps .

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