Mortalophobia

Don't philosophers have anything better to do than think up reasons for people to die?

Doesn't the land of the living present enough them with enough dilemmas to try to solve, instead of fixating on the nonexistent problem of how to flush living, breathing human beings out of it like dead goldfish down the toilet bowl?

And what is 'Applied Philosophy' anyway? What is is it applied to? Stucco? Chipboard?

What is applied with? Velcro? A paintbrush?

It was GKC (Peace Be Upon Him) who wrote,"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it his head that splits".

Indeed. Mine is splitting from trying to follow this one's thought processes. I could be reading him wrongly, but as far as I can see one of this philosopher's principal reasons for advocating the type of hangman's charter which an assisted suicide law would inevitably become is that death is preferable to Switzerland. This analysis is, to say the least, cheesy.

'Give me liberty, or give me death!' cried Patrick Henry. To Professor Grayling, death is liberty, an extreme example of the mindset best described as 'mortalophobia'; a profound and terrible fear of being alive, and having to take all that comes with it, which seems to be shared by all those who either wish to be put down like lame horses, or who would seem to have little compunction in wielding the syringe. Thank you, but no. All good things to those who wait.