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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • No. I don’t need a doctor’s note to jump off a building, why should I need one to asphyxiate in a pod? I have never understood the Western weirdness about death. People are not immortal; they die in stupid and horrifying ways with no control or dignity, or they’re forced to live in a state of living death well beyond their quality of life because their families can’t let go (or, in the necropolitics sense, they’re marked for “wearing out” by being in a precaritized class). Why should a medical board get a say? What could they know that a person ready to die doesn’t?

    This is a question of bodily autonomy. If you don’t control your body, who does?