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[Light and Truth]

Can someone help elaborate on the moral issues of a situation where, in a hypothetical story world, a person might end up with his soul detached from his body, living detached from human contact (and lets suppose slightly dead) and unable to change this unless he kills his injured/comatose/otherwise not well body?

Please ignore the lack of realism in this post and apply real principals to it.

Edited by Light and Truth, 23 May 2012 - 12:28 AM.

[arfink]

Perhaps you should ask yourself even more questions to try and flesh out the idea a bit more. Methinks that killing yourself to "escape" from a coma wouldn't actually make sense once you were in said coma. I think a more interesting notion would be, what if you were in such an out-of-body state and you wanted to kill yourself but you couldn't? How would this make you feel? What if you didn't want to kill yourself but someone on the outside did, and you knew it?

Walking "between the planes," what wonders might you see? Would you have contact with other people in comas? Perhaps with the Divine? Would you be able to see into other times? Would time pass normally or not?

I think that it would be highly unlikely that you'd be able to separate your soul and body simply by power of will, but even if we are assuming that being mentally cognizant while in a coma focuses your willpower enough to will your soul to leave, I still think it would be intrinsically immoral as I would think it a form of suicide.