If you can articulate the suicide point a little better, I'd like to hear it for I've got Richard returning to that issue in the next chapter I'm working on.
I can try, but I'll probably ramble. Without going into my own religious background, I have some issues with the whole concept of suicide-as-sin. It's perfectly in character for Polly to object to Richard's proposal, since I can see her as very much a solid CoE Christian despite the world-traveling libertine lifestyle. But at the same time, suicide-as-sin sorts ill with a god who values free will, and in the case of fatal illness, sorts worse with a god who - as Aslan does - values sacrifice. Particularly when the fatal illness in question will cause a great deal of suffering not only to the person dying but to those around him. And in Richard's particular case, an illness that will steal his mind from him... it raises issues of whether one can even be in faith if one is not in one's right mind.
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I can try, but I'll probably ramble. Without going into my own religious background, I have some issues with the whole concept of suicide-as-sin. It's perfectly in character for Polly to object to Richard's proposal, since I can see her as very much a solid CoE Christian despite the world-traveling libertine lifestyle. But at the same time, suicide-as-sin sorts ill with a god who values free will, and in the case of fatal illness, sorts worse with a god who - as Aslan does - values sacrifice. Particularly when the fatal illness in question will cause a great deal of suffering not only to the person dying but to those around him. And in Richard's particular case, an illness that will steal his mind from him... it raises issues of whether one can even be in faith if one is not in one's right mind.