Originally posted by mikelom
Your maths much more impresses me in the debates forum! 😉
I reckon it would go up. Offing yourself would become a trend initially.
By the way :- 'offing' oneself could have a completely different pleasurable meaning in certain places!
Sure thing🙂
You see, once upon a time the ancient Greeks who lived in Kea isle were doing it voluntarily when they were growing 70 years old and they knew that they could do nothing anymore for their family and the society, acting in accordance with the law “Keion nomimon” (the law of Kea). This law was arranged by the famous Aristeides the Just.
If the citizen had actually evaluated that he could do nothing more for his family and for the city, he was applying to the leaders of the city in order to explain in full why he had to suicide; then, if the comity was permitting the suicide, the citizen was free to proceed.
Often this ritual was becoming a splendid fiesta -all the friends of the good ole guy were enjoying a huge symposium with good wine, music and philosophical conversation; and at last the noble ole man was drinking conium, surrounded by his relatives and his best friends, happy and all till beguiled under the full moon he was seeing the enchanted light turning pitch black.
This ritual stopped about the 3rd century AC because of the Christian religion🙁
Keion nomimon seems fine to me😵