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The French existentialist philosopher Camus saw the goal of existentialism in establishing whether suicide was necessary in a world without God. For Camus, suicide was the rejection of freedom. He thought that fleeing from the absurdity of reality into illusions, religion or death was not the way out. Instead of fleeing the absurd meaninglessness of life, we should embrace life passionately. Fellow existentialist Sartre described the position of Meursault the protagonist of Camus' L'Etranger, who is condemned to death in the following way: "The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions ... and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the 'divine irresponsibility' of the condemned man".

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Social Contract, according to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, argues that every man has "a right to risk his own life in order to preserve it."
Hobbes and Locke, reject the right of individuals to take their own life. Hobbes claims in his Leviathan that natural law forbids every man "to do, that which is destructive of his life, or take away the means of preserving the same". Breaking this natural law is irrational and immoral. Hobbes also states that it is intuitively rational for men to want felicity and to fear death most.

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The probability of serious pain and suffering to people and their families and friends increases exponentially as one lives, even with full health and mental facilities, after age 85. It would seem, sans the teachings of our society to date, that it becomes increasingly sensible to take control and end one's life as this probability approaches some point, e.g. 95%. While this interferes with the "natural" process of life, why can't our actions be deemed "natural". Why is more, as in more years, the bottom line criteria? Why not define more as enjoying non-pain and suffering vs. increasing one's chance of experiencing them and compromising the totality of one's life?