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Re:Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing by buzzkillington on Friday March 27, 2020 @07:50PM (#22707941)
>It's a mercy you won't be held to this when you get sick, and find it's somewhat easier to talk in the abstract about coming to terms with death than to face the imminent possibility.

It's unfortunate that you're a coward.

Death is not something to fear, and with a stock of strong pain killers neither is dying.

Re:Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing by dang on Saturday March 28, 2020 @01:22AM (#22709413)
Personal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: Please don't post unsubstantive or flamebait comments here generally. You've done it repeatedly, and we've already asked you not to.

Re:Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing by throwanem on Friday March 27, 2020 @08:04PM (#22707999)
Sure, assuming you have the good fortune to choose your manner of dying. I wouldn't feel very comfortable making that kind of assumption. But I concede it's easier to sling accusations of cowardice than to think seriously about drowning slowly and helplessly in the fluids of your own destroyed lungs.

Congratulations on having gotten over this pandemic virus. Good luck with the next one!

Re:Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing by buzzkillington on Friday March 27, 2020 @08:07PM (#22708020)
In any sane world euthanasia would be legal and everyone could chose a painless death.

But of course we can't have that freedom.

Re:Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing by jshevek on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:41PM (#22708741)
Reflecting on how my relationship with death has varied with my life experiences, I don't think you know enough about his particular experience to call him a coward.