In composing his rational utopia, More aimed to dispel what he saw as the cobwebs of superstition prevailing in Europe, not least with respect to the treatment of the dying and the forbidden topic of suicide. He could see no great difference between suicide and the killing of another so long as the death was desired by the person put to death and undertaken to bring relief from an incurable and painful disease “as out of a prison or rack of torment.” In this sense, More was a forceful representative of view A, placing restrictions rather than prohibitions on both suicide and killing persons wishing to die. And he aimed explicitly to distance himself from holders of the prevailing view C, prohibiting both forms of taking human life as murder and as a grave abuse of divine powers over life and death.