Question: Is a worthless life worth living at all?
The more astute would ask what is deemed worthless. Who deemed it worthless? Well, if one believes that a person should have full rights over his own body, then that alone should answer the 'what' and 'who' part. Each individual have no control over the circumstances that he is born into the world - you can't choose your parents, your country, your financial background, your skin colour too. However, if there is just one shred of thing that is important to us and that we can control, that must be the way we choose to end our lives.
This is not a morbid article, in fact it is a liberating one. To stare at death with your middle finger is perhaps the bravest thing that a mortal man can do. When the very thing that remind us of our mortality is no longer feared, life takes on a very different tack. The man, having entered the world with no choice of his own, will have the freedom to end it the way he chooses it. Is it so hard to empower an individual the decision of when and how to leave this place? 
Euthanasia - mercy killing - had been in the newspaper for some time. Different religious heads came forward to condemn it. Well, I beg to differ. I believe no person will choose to end their lives willingly if they see any value in it. But whose value are we talking about here? It must and should always be the value perceived by the person who is contemplating thoughts of suicide. No government or religion should step in to interfere, in my honest opinion.
But would I ever take my own life? I think not, I'm very much pro-life. However, I would rather let the individual take the choice rather than be forced to take it by parties who have an interest in prolonging your life.
I had the opportunity to see a soft copy of the pure chemistry paper 1 - MCQ - for the O'lvls 2008. Here's the answers:
1. D
2. A
3. A
4. C
5. C
6. D
7. B
8. A
9. D
10. B
11. C
12. A
13. C
14. A
15. C
16. C
17. D
18. D
19. A
20. B
21. A
22. B
23. D
24. C
25. D
26. A
27. A
28. B
29. B
30. D
31. C
32. B
33. B
34. B
35. D
36. B
37. D
38. A
39. B
40. B
Personally I feel this MCQ isn't that easy. It's O'lvl standard no doubt, but definitely harder than Physics. Hope that you get at least 30 out of 40 :)
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