Author: M.A. Quest
M.A. Quest is an author, performer, and humanist activist. This essay is adapted from his book Deathrights: In Defense of Suicide (PublishAmerica, 2007).
On Our Own Terms
Monumental energies, skills, and resources are devoted to keeping people alive indefinitely. Very little is put into letting us die by choice and with dignity. I have a wonderful wife whom I love, along with the “ideal” life we share here in Hawaii. Nonetheless, I intend, at the proper time, to kill myself. Our lives are …