Did you know Sigmund Freud had an assisted death!

[LittleJem]

The Assisted Suicide of Sigmund Freud

Both sides in the debate project their views onto the professor's final exit

www.beliefnet.com

Just found out... he had an OD of morphine from his doctor. Nice way to go.

 

[LenkaX]

If professional euthanasia was available to everybody (let's say over 18), this world would be a much better place!!!

 

[Amumu]

He had been suffering from cancer for a long time I think

 

[hoping to lose hope]

Socrates had an assisted death as well.

 

[TheEndisNear121200]

He had been suffering from cancer for a long time I think

Yes according to the article, he had cancer of the mouth for 16 years

 

[VisionsOfHell]

Socrates had an assisted death as well.

Socrates was sentenced to death by poison for "poisoning the youth" (among other things) xD

 

[Jean Améry]

Yes, still he suffered a great deal before that from cancer of the jaw. I read in the end his breath smelled so bad even his most beloved and loyal dog wouldn't come near him anymore.

Ironically he wrote this about suicide:

"So immense is the ego's self-love, which we have come to recognize as the primal state from which instinctual life proceeds, and so vast is the amount of narcissistic libido which we see liberated in the fear that emerges at a threat to life, that we cannot conceive how that ego can consent to its own destruction."

Source: https://ethicsofsuicide.lib.utah.edu/selections/freud/ (subtitel 'from Mourning and Melancholia', 2d paragraph)

I guess he found out, didn't he?

I abhor people who think they have the right to dictate their own moral views to others and force them to live and die a certain way. Freud was instrumental in the emergence of psychiatry which in my mind is one of the greatest threats to freedom and the rule of law ever devised. Not to mention it's prety much quackery just like Freud's completely unscientific 'theories'.

 

[VisionsOfHell]

Freud was instrumental in the emergence of psychiatry which in my mind is one of the greatest threats to freedom and the rule of law ever devised. Not to mention it's prety much quackery just like Freud's completely unscientific 'theories'.

Yeah Freud was a crook. He was always scared to take a holiday because his patients might recover while he's away...