Why does Ezekiel Emanuel choose the age of 75 to die? How is this not utterly arbitrary? By his own admission, substantial numbers of people older than 75 do not suffer from significant physical decline, and they remain mentally active and creative. . . . Although it is true that a person may reach a point when, given the diminished quality of his life, he no longer deems it worth living, the proper principle guiding such decisions—a principle Emanuel never states—is that the only person properly in a position to decide whether his life is worth living is the individual himself. A person’s life is his own; it does not belong to other individuals, to society, or to the government. —Ari Armstrong theobjectivestandard/2014/09/unlike-ezekiel-emanuel-hope-die-75/
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