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committing suicidal-acts violate the duties owed others and ourselves. We can then ask, to begin, how would euthanasia violate our duty to ourselves? Hume believes there are some instances where suicide is undoubtedly consistent with our duties to ourselves. Life may be rendered more unbearable than death and prolonging a miserable experience is therefore a disservice to oneself. Furthermore, given the intensity with which people fear death, (and this is a reasonable claim - Kant would also agree that people