Schopenhauer on Mars – A new blog supporting the right to die, antinatalism and efilism

Welcome to my personal blog. In this blog, I aim to cover topics relating to the right to die, antinatalism and efilism from a pessimistic perspective. Occasionally, I may post articles on other subjects of personal interest, as well, which will be in a separate category.

My blog will tie in with my Reddit account, u/existentialgoof, and you can see my full comment and post history here. If you enjoy this blog and are active on Reddit, please also consider joining my Reddit communities, r/BirthandDeathEthics and r/DebateAntinatalism, which are, in common with this blog, platforms dedicated to open and uncensored discussion of the ethics surrounding procreation and suicide.

This homepage will serve as an index of articles as they are published, and links to each new article will appear below. Each topic will be listed under the most relevant category, however as is the nature of this philosophy, there will often be significant areas of overlap between the different subjects.

In Support of a Fundamental Right to Die: an argument from personal liberty
Paternalism: From Safe Spaces to Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Laws are Functionally the Same as Blasphemy Laws
When Safety Becomes Slavery : Negative Rights and the Cruelty of Suicide Prevention

Negative utilitarianism articles:

Negative Utilitarianism – Why suffering is all that matters

Antinatalism articles:

Antinatalism vs. The Non-Identity Problem

Promortalism and Efilism articles:

Death is Not Bad For You: Refuting the Deprivation Account

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  5. Hi, I am still here and hoping to publish soon. I am just terrible with procrastination. Thank you for your…

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    1. Quite true. Nobody is increasing the dignity/value of life by making people go through an existence they can’t find any value in. Unfortunately, this is bound to happen when people simply believe in something without creating any room for nuanced perspectives. May you have a good day ahead.

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  3. The auto-moderator reports that the text I’m trying to post has already been posted. However, my post has never been posted.

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  4. This world is ruled by complete bastards. And the meanest and most terrible thing is that they deprive the victims of even salvation by death.

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    1. I’m hoping to stir up some activism with my next published post. Unfortunately, my laptop is away for repair and it’s taking rather a long time, but it will be published shortly after I receive it back.

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  7. There are a lot of people on Facebook now leading a lively discussion on a given topic. If only some of them could be dragged here.

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  9. That short text that was not posted before, I sent you via email. Then here, in the blog, that text appeared. And an explanation that he must pass moderation. But his was never published. But he not posted.

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    1. Sorry, I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I haven’t had any submissions that I haven’t allowed through, although there may have been a duplicate comment. I don’t know which email you would have sent your message to. I don’t have access to all of my email accounts, as my laptop has been in for repair since late August, so I’ve only had access to my main email since then.

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  10. I dream of legalizing suicide. The way I imagine it is that there would be companies that, in addition to the death itself, would help with the whole process: talking to the family, arranging finances and generally all the paperwork.
    So that everyone would be prepared for it and everything would be organized without any problems.
    I am held back by two things:
    1. fear of surviving
    2. the impact on the family (besides the fact of death itself, there are issues of what to do with the body, cleaning up any traces of blood, etc.).

    I would like to be able to go to a company and die without causing problems for anyone.

    Similarly with drugs: I would prefer to buy from a proven source, following government guidelines, etc.

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  11. IDK if sharing personal experiences here helps(let me know I will be more than happy to), but I have an honest question. The right to die seems more like a privilege now, they use the argument that mentally ill people can’t make an informed decision because of the illness but what makes a terminally ill person more qualified, you can use the same argument that your illness doesn’t allow you to make that choice. That’s what doesn’t sit right with me, why go through mental gymnastics and allow a select few to die on their own term and not allow more?

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    1. Sorry for the long time taken to approve your comment. I would agree with you that if the ‘right to die’ is contingent upon meeting strict approval criteria, then it isn’t a right at all, but a privilege afforded at the discretion of governments who allow it in select cases. I think that the reason people feel more comfortable about allowing assisted suicide for the terminally ill is because it is only cutting months off of a person’s life, and those months are almost guaranteed to be pretty bad anyway, so people don’t think that there’s too much moral jeopardy, even if questions about what it means to be able to give informed consent still linger. If it were expanded further, I think that people don’t want to officially admit that life itself can be not worth living, as opposed to the more conservative position that it’s not worth prolonging life for a few more agonising months when someone’s already close to death.

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      1. Ok, I understand, thanks.
        But the thing about bad months, can’t this be applied to mental illness as well? In some cases like with schizophrenia and PTSD or treatment resistant depression or other illnesses that cause pain in your body and mind at the same time, aren’t they a guarantee to make your days or months worse, and it’s not good in that case either because the mentally ill person will have a lot more to live and if they can’t be treated well, neither a graceful exit will be allowed(Even tho it should).

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        1. Yes, it can be, but people are more reluctant to concede in any case where natural death isn’t imminent. I think that everyone should be allowed to make the decision for themselves. Government intervention with the aim of stopping people from having the opportunity to commit suicide without risk is enslavement. Some day, suicidal people must come together and protest against this state of affairs.

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  12. Hello existentialgoof, I wanted to ask about the “What about people you leave behind” argument that people have against suicide and dying in general.

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    1. I think that argument might have merit if you caused those people to be dependent on your continued existence, for example a parent of young children. I don’t think that it has merit as an argument against the right to die (though it might be an ethical consideration for someone considering whether to commit suicide) if there was a mutual dependency (for example a romantic relationship, or sibling relationship), or if someone became emotionally dependent on you through no fault of your own.

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  13. The right to die is our right! No one will provide it to us if we do not achieve it ourselves. To achieve all together, in full solidarity! And we need to talk, write about it wherever possible and always together! We must always and everywhere support each other!

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  14. existentialgoof, I found this article
    https://blackastheace.medium.com/life-is-not-great-1e803641f470 about Six Philosophers who Hated Life , I wonder how the
    Pro-Life Suicide Prevention Morons would feel about this article
    Sadly there is a lot of
    Toxic Positivity still going around in America and Worldwide
    We All Need to Refute and Debunk the Lies , Propaganda and False Hope of the Pro-Life Suicide Prevention, Dictators, Clowns and so-called “professionals”

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  16. Anxiety. Just posted a comment about the word ‘safeguarding’ that took hours to edit and has disappeared into the ether after pressing ‘send’. If my posts don’t fit this blog, I respectfully understand. (Would be nice to know.) Still a much needed blog.

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