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Not essays but I would direct to you to writer Terry Pratchett's Choosing to Die documentary - which contains an actual assisted suicide scene, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0120dxp and the related report on Assisted Dying http://www.commissiononassisteddying.co.uk/ . Terry Pratchett was diagnos...

As I already said I had to solve the problem about assisted suicide by thinking as John Locke. But how do you think he would solve the problem? I understand he might never said a word about (assisted) suicide or euthanasia, but there still are his main ideas about human beings. As says human can mak...

Incidentally, what level are you writing this for? If you mean my "level" in philosophy, it's very low because this is my first year having social sciences so I don't know much about this. I meant, is this for university/college or high school? I'm in secondary school (Holland) 4th grade,...

John wrote:Incidentally, what level are you writing this for?

If you mean my "level" in philosophy, it's very low because this is my first year having social sciences so I don't know much about this.

I found in this PDF found on google: http://www3.wooster.edu/polisci/IS/roscoe.pdf Page 4 fifth line.

As he thinks you are the person to fill in your own life. So from that point of view he would say you could commit suicide but somewhere else I found that he thinks you should never commit suicide. This confused me and was one of the reasons I posted this topic.

Hey, Im doing an assignment for social science. The assignment is to take a social issue and solve it like you are a famous philosopher. So I chose John Locke and the issue I chose is Assisted Suicide. Now I need to find out some things about these two and how I could solve it. So I hoped someone he...