Shabai has been suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus for 20 years. In order to maintain quality of life, she did not follow medical advice to take medication, later developing kidney failure. Around March this year, her body fluid retention reached 130 jin (≈65 kg), making daily life unmanageable. After starting dialysis, she could not go against her life philosophy and decided to go to Switzerland for “assisted suicide”.
After Shabai’s “assisted suicide”, it suddenly went viral through marketing accounts and media reposts, sparking heated debate.
According to the website of the service provider Dignitas: euthanasia is illegal in Switzerland; the service they provide is assisted suicide
Pro side:
Do not advise others to be good without experiencing their suffering; better to die well than live dependently.
She knows the value of freedom and the meaning of happiness in life, but she does not understand that, besides herself, others also possess equal weight and dignity of life. She feels that only she truly lives meaningfully in the world, while others are just NPCs. In the end, she did not think much about euthanasia; this act seems like simply logging out of an account on a computer, completely losing reverence for death.
Do people have the right to end their own lives for any reason, even if that reason sounds absurd… This question has troubled me for a long time… Every time I think about it, I end up back at “Why am I alive,” which becomes very painful, and then I avoid thinking about it…
I support euthanasia; some people could have hanged themselves/jumped, but they have to spend a lot of money on euthanasia, making it hard not to support it.
Euthanasia and buying a bag of sodium nitrite seem no different to me.
What’s even more shocking is that she criticizes the lack of autonomy over organ trade.
Mainly I dislike this kind of propaganda; some terminally ill people actively upload treatment videos or run other stuff, while others only become known to be ill when they suddenly disappear one day.
Those who simply end their own lives instead flaunt autonomy and criticize perceived injustice, and then the media hype it up again.
In abstract terms, can it be understood as a trade‑off between the external form of existence and the necessity of existence?
Human in what form continues its existence is built upon its life existence; if a person cannot base existence on establishing the form of existence desired by their own will (or if the form of existence contradicts their own wishes), can they then abandon this foundation?
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From the intrinsic elements of the event, treatment of such immune diseases can affect the patient’s physique and health, which is also the reason for “not following medical advice” while cooperating with treatment (ignoring Sha’s outrageous statements). Regarding the behavior related to treatment, this is the trade‑off described above—this trade‑off aims to discuss appearance versus survival—if a person gives up life
