Acharya Prashant’s weekly column in The Sunday Guardian

'The Right to Depart: On Death as a Decision, Not a Default'

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"The decision to depart, when genuine, must be the person’s own, arrived at in full awareness, not extracted by family exhaustion, economic pressure, or a system that has run out of ideas. It cannot come from pain alone, because suffering without self-knowledge produces desperation rather than clarity, and desperation and dignity are not on the same register."

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Read full article: https://sundayguardianlive.com/feature/the-right-to-depart-on-death-as-a-decision-not-a-default-181520/