Author: Lowrey R. Brown
Lowrey R. Brown is an exit guide with Final Exit Network. She looks forward to a time when those she serves can comfortably and openly plan for a self-chosen death.
Suicide ≠ Mentally Ill ≠ Irrational
I very much appreciated Tom Flynn’s editorial “The Signature of Freedom” (Free Inquiry, October/November 2018), which refuted the unfounded presumption that, by definition, suicide results from mental illness. In exposing that intellectual cop-out for what it is, Flynn breaks the false, presumed-causal connection between mental illness and suicide. Building on that, I would like to …
By My Own Hand: Suicide Can Be a Wise and Gentle Choice
It’s time to look beneath the stigma and see a socially-accepted role for suicide in a nation where our lives are our own. I will die. You will die. Death is not a question of if; it is only a question of when and how. Modern medicine has doubled American life expectancy over the past two centuries. At forty, …
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