Ø Applications · Chapter Nine · the plain edition

End-of-Life Care and the Right to Exit

The right to exit is a person’s authority over the closing of their own life, when their corridor is no longer viable.

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This is the plain edition, written for the screen. The book of record is Ø Applications, Chapter 9, unchanged, on the420code.org.

The sections

1. Section 1A bedsideThe oldest medical question, asked at the end. What is care now?
2. Section 2You are already insideYou cannot step outside the question. Every body carries a finite corridor.
3. Section 3What this chapter inheritsFour chapters came before this one. It uses what they built.
4. Section 4Where the question came fromCare should hold the corridor, not close it. Then medicine learned to hold a body for years.
5. Section 5Four positionsFour readings of care at the closing. Each catches something real. The structure is a fifth.
6. Section 6Three conditionsThe right to exit, and the three conditions it requires.
7. Section 7Six questions at the bedsideSix questions do not produce the verdict. They make sure the verdict is the person’s own.
8. Section 8Five chapters, one accountThe body read at five scales. One account, not five.
9. Section 9Where the reach endsFive questions this chapter names and hands on.
10. Section 10Where it would dieFive claims carry this chapter. Each one can fail.
11. Section 11ClosingA window closes. The building stands. The interior remains.

The kill switches

APP-9.1Exhibit a case where the right to exit cannot be derived from operator authority without importing autonomy as a separate principle.

APP-9.2Show that the corridor-cannot-be-re-widened condition is not structurally measurable.

APP-9.3Demonstrate that the operator-vs-narrator distinction collapses at the corridor’s closing.

APP-9.4Produce a case where extending the corridor against the operator’s reading is structurally correct.

APP-9.5Show that the dignity floor cannot be specified at the closing without cultural import.

Source. Ø Applications, Chapter 9 — End-of-Life Care and the Right to Exit. The book in full: the420code.org/Applications.pdf. The short edition: the420code.org/models/applications/09-end-of-life-care-and-the-right-to-exit/. The film, The structure’s unpaid debt: the420code.org/films/applications/. Its kill switches: APP-9.1 to APP-9.5.