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That’s the idea of an option. Great if it works for him, but having spent a lot of time with Pieter Hintjens (of AMQP and ZeroMQ fame) before he chose the time of his own passing from recurrent cancer, the notion that this is not allowed in order to appease religious zealots is simply barbaric.


I'm not sure you replied to the right post, but religious zealots don't watch Larry David.


Indeed: but the kind of people that prevent individuals from having the option to die as and when they see fit tend to be.




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