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[quote=Anonymous]I don't approach this from a Christian nor from New Age ethics.

Thirty years ago I dishonored the ancestors.  There's only one sanction for that.

I have two options.  Either achieve something in my own field akin to the Manhattan Project or winning a Pulitzer.  Or doing what honor requires according to Bushido.

Which frowns on if not prohibits modern expedients such as ballistics or pharmaceuticals.  No triple gainer from a highrise into your parked SUV.
Taking the euthanasic way out would only leverage my disgrace and afix it to my family forever.  Compound the shame.

Am still working on achieving something notable.  The token isn't fame.  It's mastery...excellence.   Nothing I've done in life amounts to a bucket of cold spit compared to what many of you have done.

I have no spouse, no children.  It's debatable who would note my passing.  Maybe nobody, and in no event would there be a hue and cry.

The other option requires adhering to a centuries-old protocol.  Using a large blade among other things.  I"m not a minnow wriggling on someone else's hook...I"m exactly where I deserve to be given what I have done or failed to do.

I'm too much of a coward to do what honor requires.

Unless my would-be rescuer understood and lived my values there's nothing they could say that would speak to the center of the issue.

Is the ancient code of honor I try to live by more important than your approval?  Yes.[/quote]

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