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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • i grew up in a BIG mormon family.

    a decade or so ago, a group of 20-ish cousins and i were sitting round the campfire at the reunion. they all discussed among themselves and decided that i am the original black-sheep of the family and they thanked me for being a strong role model for their own journey out of the truly awful mormon religion.

    i am very proud of that.


  • i think it is incredibly unfair that the process of ending your own life is, in this culture, a necessarily lonely and grim affair.

    according to the theory of complete bodily autonomy the option must be available, simple, painless, and ideally a joyful shared experience. but the moment you make such a desire known to others, they will try to “help” you. and i can assure you that their idea of “help” will not be pleasant for you.

    so, sadly, you must tread this path alone.

    philosophically, i think it offends people because it forces them to acknowledge that their own life is probably not worth preserving. we force each other to suffer through it all because no one wants to openly admit that this shit just plain-old-sucks.