In any case, keep up the good work .

Osu

The difference between soul and spirit goes back to the old Jewish books which were made into the Old Testament. There are different words in Christian Greek and Christian Latin… and therefore also in French, a Christian language.
If your character deliberately used the word for spirit to mean soul, I guess it could indicate he’s pagan. This is how pagan sayings are sometimes translated in French. In any case even without the plural it would sound odd in French which has (virtually) no pagan litterature.

Also… I’m rather curious as to why you went with the plural “Que vos esprits reposent en paix”. I’d personally would have gone with the single approach “Que votre esprit repose en paix”, but that’s only me he he he.

Anyway, great work as always .

Osu

Keep it up!

My interaction with the person might be on a whim. It seems that this person is a stranger to us in the scenario, so there’s no established relationship with which to strengthen your counsel. I love life and I love living. I value life, but I do not suggest that others should. It is a purely subjective matter. All I could ever do in honesty is to express my outlook, but not suggest that it’s correct.

That leads a bit into perspective/subjectivity vs. objectivity. There is no objective morality – and nothing intrinsically means anything. Take a chair, we attribute the ‘symbol’ chair to things which resemble the form and function of a ‘chair.’ But let’s say the chair was atomized, or even just turned into sawdust. Is it still a chair? Say that 30 equal portions of the dust were shipped to 30 different places. Would everyone recognize the dust as 1/30th of a chair?

When all memory of something is gone, it loses whatever meaning it was given. Because things can only be given meaning by minds capable of conceiving these concepts. These meanings aren’t intrinsic. If all sapient life were extinguished, would the rocks and waters and airs and fires consider themselves to be anything? Would the grass say that fire is “Bad” or “Evil?”

So is the question posed objectively or subjectively? “Does it matter morally?” Objectively, no. Nothing matters, nothing is meaningful. All simply Is. But we are sympathetic organisms, we survive by coordinating. So we have close to what we call ‘morals’ to preserve the herd, and keep ourselves alive through them. Their welfare is our welfare, and so others are valuable to us. Save sociopaths, whose survival instincts do not dictate others as significant to their survival.

“Murder vs. Assisted Suicide” Regardless of legal affairs, a death compelled by the dying (or victim as you might have it) is suicide. Be it by their own hand or another’s. To me, this question was less intriguing than that of morality. It’s simply “Was the death willed for, or was it not?” Suicide vs. Murder.

Now, I could have misunderstood the question. It could have been “Is the difference between murder and suicide morally significant?” – but I didn’t read it that way, though I’ll answer it anyway. To me, subjectively, yes. A death asked for and a death forced by another are very different. Both equally unfortunate. An entire world of experiences unique to that individual are now gone forever. That’s sad, and I would prefer it to not happen. But that is not my choice. Nor, do I believe, is it the choice of anyone but oneself. So I would hold the murderer accountable of an atrocious loss.

TL;DR – Suicide. Nothing is objectively meaningful.