I’ve considered this idea as well. Is it moral to kill oneself before the madness of old age sets in? Wouldn’t be ideal to die at a point when there is total clarity? One of my biggest fears is that after spending a lifetime dedicated to truth and maturing psychologically, old age causes the brain to degenerate into an insane zombie state.“If my life is to be prolonged now, I know that I must live out my old age, seeing worse, hearing less, learning with more difficulty, and forgetting more and more of what I have learned. If I see myself growing worse and reproach myself for it, tell me, how could I continue to live pleasantly? Perhaps even the god in his kindness is offering to end my life not only at the right time, but also in the easiest way possible...â€
Who wants to end up a senile old man laying in a hospital bed somewhere who compulsively dictates the importance of nonattachment to some smug nurse while she’s in the process of changing your adult diaper….not I!
Yes, my mind is made up, I’ll kill myself before I get grow insane. As soon as I feel the sharpness of the mind start to fade away, this philosopher is gonna take a long carbon monoxide snooze…
What do you guys think? To be or not to be when insanity begins to set in?