Posted: Nov 13, 2014 3:24 pm
Thommo wrote:
I don't think we can completely dismiss the views of people in ill health or otherwise as to whether their life is preferable to death (overall net positive) or less preferable to death (overall net negative) in such a conversation though. If people regard more years, even in poor health as positive, who are we to tell them otherwise?
I think the problem with the "life in ill health vs death" preference test, is that there is no opportunity to seek the views of the dead as to whether they consider being dead an improvement.