Your right to life is not separated from your right to defend that life.

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Not separable, no. Indeed, I'm not sure they can be distinguished each from the other. Or whether it's a distinction without a difference.

Those who have been adjudged to no longer be their own responsible party still have a right to life; yet, some of them may be stripped of the right to defend themselves (with only a right to be defended by others). The same can be said of some prisoners. The right to life and the right to self defense are distinct and separate in practical application. Considering that what constitutes mental incompetence and what constitutes a crime is in the eye of the beholder in power at the time, the separation between the right to life and the right to self defense becomes a distinction with a difference.