Snowden, why didn't you just stop while you were ahead.

I'm not sure if I can agree with that, unless people can cease to be individuals without, in the traditional sense, dying (take people in persistive vegetative comas - they're not able to make any choices as far as I can tell). Also, a third party can certainly affect your set of choices - if you're in solitary confinement "kiss a person" is no longer one of your options, you're stuck with "pace restlessly", "stare at the wall", "starve yourself to death", and so on. It's in this sense that I care about freedom - I feel that some choices should be available to anyone, in order to maintain human dignity. And when you take those choices away from someone you're doing something bad. That's not to say it's never necessary - but just that it needs to be acknowledged as such in every case when it's done (and as far as I'm concerned, the only reason to do it is to prevent them doing worse to others). btw I'm a little confused if you have 2 accounts or just completely didn't post the thing I was rebutting.

Quick answer. Yes, coma patients are unconscious and therefore don't have the freedom to make their own decisions. No, people in solitary still have the freedom to make their own decisions, they are limited though in the ability of decisions they are able to make due to their presence in a 'solitary' environment. There is no proven correlation with humanity and dignity or dignity being an objective standard to judge humanity. Yes, I agree that it would be nice if people have the ability to do anything they wanted, but realistically we know that is not true. And no, I don't believe that restricting someone's ability of choice is bad. I believe that it is only a disparity that comes from one person having a superior platform to the other person. I am still under the belief though that even though we don't have a choice to how we are born in this world, we do have a choice of how we die, the only caveat being children born with severe birth defects and disabilities that leave them physically crippled and unable to move their bodies (a caveat just for you). I have more than two accounts. Due to my impulsive nature I sometimes jitter about. But I am mostly on this one all the time. And I responded to what I felt was relevant to discussion.