Hi Peter,

I first like to thank you very much for reading and commenting.

It is indeed a big topic, and the one I’ve touched upon, albeit from a different angle, in my post ‘Suicide.’

In the last almost five years, I have learned that death is a stern teacher and that her lessons are the most expensive.

Amongst other things, I’ve learned that there is no such thing as a generic rule for anything, including age.

Any question that seeks a simple ‘yes/no’ answer not only dismisses the complexity of each individual circumstances, but it also shifts the focus from what, in my view, is the real question – why would a, presumably, healthy 25 (or any age) person wish to die? What exactly constitutes ‘sound mind?’

The question is not whether or not each and every one of us can end our own lives at the time of our choosing, because, strictly technically speaking the answer is of course yes, (irrespective of whether or not we have a ‘permission’ to do it), the question is what exactly has brought us to seek it. This, in my is the key.

Lastly, by the logic of simple maths it is clear that 25, 35, 45… year olds have far longer to, so to speak, test life, than 75 or 85 year olds.

In my view there is an enormous difference between a person such as Jan in ‘Pink Moon,’ and someone (of any age) who chose to die to escape unbearable circumstances. Nobody dies from being loved… Heard, seen, cared for, understood, accepted.

Above all, there is nothing more tragic than death of those who ‘died for wishing to live,’ those that asked for help that never came. That, in my view, is a terrible tragedy.

Thank you once again and

Best Wishes,

D