Compact magazine featured an essay that surprised me. Although I disagree with many things said in it, I’m quite glad that social scientist Charles Murray has come around to a personal opposition to euthanizing himself, lest he emotionally burden other people:

At the heart of my previous openness to suicide was fear of dementia. I would be miserable if I were aware of what was happening. If I weren’t aware, how prospectively humiliating. And what an emotional burden I would impose on my loved ones when the dementia progressed until I was no longer able to recognize them. I used to think that sparing them that burden would be an act of love, not selfishness.
If we’re talking about financial burdens, I still sympathize with that logic. But when it comes to emotional burdens, I have come to think that I got it wrong.

This is a good thing. Read it all here.