”Living is slavery if the freedom to die is wanting.” Having the freedom to do something should not be equated with a drive or necessity to do so. If we are primarily concerned with the creation of our souls, nothing builds a stronger foundation than choosing against the freedoms accorded and the wishes conceived.
Having the freedom to die equates to a freedom to take risks. We are not required to live our lives recklessly, but our lives are purely our own and human beings are always driven to challenge their equanimity. We despise a steady state, we always wish, in some sense to destroy.
So the drive we have towards death, toward that freedom to extinguish our lives if it compels us, takes us into those dark places and asks us for risks short of mortality, deaths that aren’t permanent, but require recovery. Yet some people fear even these risks so much that they criticize their very thoughts and stigmatize that trait that makes them most human.