Both Arthur Koestler and Andre Gorz indeed made together with their companion an end to their lives indeed.
regarding the right to suicide, here a note from an utopian society: Nugo The nugo is a metallic capsule an inch-and-a-half long and half-an-inch in diameter, secured by a twist-combination lock whose seven-digit number is known only by its bearer: This metallic container encloses a pill of an immediately deadly substance. Every ibu gets its nugo from its bolo, as is the case for taku. The ibu can wear its nugo together with the keys to its property trunk on a chain around its neck so that it's always ready for use. Should the ibu be incapable of opening the capsule and swallowing the death pill (due to paralysis, injury, etc.), the other ibus are obliged to help it (see sila). If the ibu is sick of bolo'bolo, of itself, of taku, sila, nima, yaka, fasi, etc., it can always feel free to quit the game definitely and escape from its (improved, reformed) nightmare. Life shouldn't be a pretext to justify its responsibility towards bolo'bolo, society, the future, or other illusions. The nugo reminds the ibu that bolo'bolo finally makes no sense, that nobody and no form of social organization can help the ibu in its loneliness and despair. If life is taken too seriously, it equals hell. Every ibu comes outfitted with a return ticket. (from Bolo'Bolo by P.M., Autonomedia, 1983, which can be downloaded in its entirity in a text file - legaly, it is CC licensed - from here, among other: http://www.further.co.za/bolo'bolo.odt) see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.M._%28author%29 Cheers, patrizio & Diiiinooos! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
