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RiskRraven

> A criteria for those that wish to die is that they truly do not wish to live, 
and to do so would be in misery or a slow death, so, I'm sure, anything that 
would hasten the process they will be grateful for.<

To take ones own life is not appropriate. To get ones relatives or friends to 
help or involved in any way is not appropriate. So what to do when the body is 
old and/or failing or sick or injured and the end is inevitably near.  Each will 
make their own choice.  

One choice to not be discounted is to do what the ancients have done. Walk into 
the forest to die away from camp.  This takes the problem body out of friends 
and relative view and minimizes the needing to feel like they need to do 
something and/or feeling bad upon your death.  It takes the problem away from 
the survival of the group.  

For the person doing it, it becomes a last fight for life.  One walks and walks 
straight away from camp, and/or crawls until a bear or other animal attacks 
them. One might get one weak punch to the nose as satisfaction before ones body 
is torn up.  One keeps fighting until the body can no longer be inhabited.  One 
has returned to nature food for another to live.  This becomes a win for another 
life form.

One might say this could be a painful death.  So what.  The pain doesn't 
ultimately hurt the spiritual being but it could help separate one from the 
body.  If one goes out fighting one is alert and knows what happened.  If one 
goes out with drugs and no pain, one might think one is asleep and it could take 
a while to realize ones body is dead.  In other words with drugs one is more 
likely to get stuck with and in the body until one dumbly becomes aware of the 
worms and other parasites eating it up.  

By the way this is why cremation is an other good answer.  Those tribes that 
burned the dead give a helping hand to help separate the spiritual being from 
the dead body. 

The point is if given a chance, whether amongst friends or by your self, go out 
fighting for your life, and the life around you.    




