He nodded, suddenly aware of how much his Immortality coloured his views on this sort of thing. This life was "all there is" as far as Methos was concerned - he'd taken enough Quickenings to know that everything that made him unique would be absorbed by whoever took his head - but he was unlikely to ever need a mercy killing, and assisted suicide would be like offering his unguarded neck to a headhunter.
Clarice's earlier comment about cops who shot to kill came back full force and he wondered whether he'd just joined the dots she was so obviously trying to hide. Interesting.
"There are at least two forms of assisted suicide though," Methos said consideringly, trying to phrase his reply just-so. "The usual scenario is a terminally ill person who wishes to die with dignity, but lacks the means to commit the act him or herself - but their wish is unequivocal and clearly stated. Others, however, may not be able to admit what they are looking for even to themselves - so they place the burden of their death upon the shoulders of another, often in such a way that the chosen executioner is forced to perform an act they would never accept under normal circumstances."
The memory of Connor Macleod's decision to ask Duncan to take his head ambushed Methos with a vengeance then, an act that ran contrary to every survival-obsessed bone in his body. If that wasn't assisted suicide he didn't know what was, but at least they'd gone to the trouble of talking about it.
"In such a case I would have a hard time thinking of the suicide as sane.. and every sympathy for the poor sod they tangled in their crazy web."
[Methos] "Good death" (tag Clarice)
Clarice's earlier comment about cops who shot to kill came back full force and he wondered whether he'd just joined the dots she was so obviously trying to hide. Interesting.
"There are at least two forms of assisted suicide though," Methos said consideringly, trying to phrase his reply just-so. "The usual scenario is a terminally ill person who wishes to die with dignity, but lacks the means to commit the act him or herself - but their wish is unequivocal and clearly stated. Others, however, may not be able to admit what they are looking for even to themselves - so they place the burden of their death upon the shoulders of another, often in such a way that the chosen executioner is forced to perform an act they would never accept under normal circumstances."
The memory of Connor Macleod's decision to ask Duncan to take his head ambushed Methos with a vengeance then, an act that ran contrary to every survival-obsessed bone in his body. If that wasn't assisted suicide he didn't know what was, but at least they'd gone to the trouble of talking about it.
"In such a case I would have a hard time thinking of the suicide as sane.. and every sympathy for the poor sod they tangled in their crazy web."