The ‘Big Liberty Ideas’ series tackles End Of Life. End-of-life includes pain management, refusal of care, removal of equipment, ability of family members to decide for you, options for ending one’s own life. End of life intersects politics, legislation, ethics, social norms, communication, and liberty.

Who owns you? Who gets to make the decisions for your body? Does this change when you are aged and infirmed and at your most vulnerable? What right would anyone have to overrule your decisions around your end-of-life? And how much should you be prevented from helping a loved one, versus being forced under threat of government violence, to watch them be tortured to death?

Come and explore this topic. A discussion of ethics and anecdotes about what happens to people when the state takes control of your end of life will lead to small group discussions where you get to explore and opine on issue critical to you, and then return to discuss in large group what the small groups came up with.

<strong>Details</strong>: Libertarian ethics starts with self-ownership — that you are the full and exclusive owner of your own body. But the state disagrees and through its laws acts as though our rulers own your body. This disagreement over who owns you can be seen quite starkly at your end of life, sometimes causing you severe anguish, pain, economic devastation, and unnecessary trauma.

Which pain and life-ending measures should your beneficent rulers withhold from you? How much additional pain must you endure to conform to their whims? How much shame and how much indignity? How much burden must you be for, and leave with, your loved ones? How many procedures and inspections must you endure in order to beg your masters for what should be your most basic human right? And who are these rulers who decide — instead of you — when enough is enough? Does it make sense to you that some bureaucrat or politician decides your end-of-life rather than you? And what might be the implications for your loved ones if they listen to your pleas, and not to those who would enslave you?

Dennis Pratt, the #1 writer on Quora on libertarianism (primarily ethics), will discuss the ethical struggle behind end-of-life restrictions of your options, and we will have at least one guest from the New Hampshire Alliance for End of Life Options who will discuss the implications of existing authoritarian ethical violations for her family.

As usual, we will break into small groups to talk more intimately about your own choices and concerns, and come back together to share with the group major takeaways from the small groups re: these end-of-life issues that all of us face, sooner or later, for ourselves and/or our loved ones.”

<ul><li><strong>Address</strong>:
The SHELL, Rollinsford
Lower Mills at Salmon Falls, Room B10
Three Front Street
Rollinsford
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<li><strong>Take</strong>: Please consider filling out a short questionnaire before the meeting about the areas that most concerned you regarding end-of-life. Bring your thoughts about the most critical areas for you to the meeting.

Questionnaire: https://forms.gle/cToFP6W5Ae5o6x8p7″

<li><strong>Donation</strong>: Not required, but a minimum suggested donation of $5 from non SHELL members helps keep the lights on at The SHELL ; Nonmembers please contribute $5 to keep the lights on at The SHELL. Please consider a donation to, and memberships with, NH Alliance for End of Life Options.

<li><strong>RSVP</strong>: Preferred: <a href=”https://seacoastwelcome.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=164″>RSVP</a>

<li><strong>Host</strong>: Dennis, Wendy

<li><strong>Most Up-To-Date Info (Check before coming):https://seacoastwelcome.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=164
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