needshumility | 1.1.01.01.009: speech is to be kept at a polite volume.

If you met my dad?

I've got nothing to apologise for, or be angry about, or curse his name for. I just hope you liked him. He's a good Swatchman.

[Warden filter, minus infirmary staff, and Narvin.]

A certain... recent incidents have made me wonder something.

Does anyone come from a world where it's acceptable to kill others if they're going to die a potentially long, drawn out, horrific death? By which I mean kill using medicinal means, with given permission and consent. Not just... using a instant-kill-gun and shooting them.

Also, I will consider anyone who informs my inmate that I asked this question as officially undermining my position.

On another note, does anyone have an inmate who's left and then returned?

[Private to Jane]

Do not mention the Green Room. Especially to Victor.

Also, Scarlet Pimpernel?

[Private to Victor]

Alright. Let's discuss Rex.

[Private to Rex]

Would you mind if I asked you a few questions about Victor?

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I'm working on a questionnaire right now. I'll have something ready very soon. Looks like we need it.

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Very much so. This is a bit of a broad-strokes description, but the argument goes that either it's murder and denies any sort of hope for the patient's future, or it's a charitable act intended to give someone some dignity and control in the end stages of a painful illness. I'm sure there are books about it all in the library if you want to find out more.

I actually don't need to read much about the concept, but thank you anyway.

I just wondered how commonplace it was, and where.

Do you, personally, find it morally objectionable? You don't have to answer.

No, I don't. I think if someone with no realistic hope of recovery makes an independent decision to end their life and a doctor makes an independent decision to help them end that life painlessly, they should both have the right to make those choices.

Okay. I... thank you for your input.

Is this a common theme for most of the Previous? The uncertainty about whether it's right or not? Or is it just your world?

That's....almost impossible for me to answer, honestly. But I would suggest that most worlds like mine will always debate over whether it's right or wrong to take a life prematurely in any circumstances.

It's interesting, if you don't mind me saying so, that you think it's acceptable, but still describe the death as premature.

I'm using 'premature' in its most technical sense, to cover other medical life-or-death situations - abortion, for example. If you were to ask me if the voluntary euthanasia of someone suffering from a terminal disease was premature, I would say no.

I see.

[he's gone to the dictionary again.]

Again, thank you for your input. It's most interesting.

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