True though, but the laws of the land and parental standing places constraint upon your personal rights. This implies that there are decisions you can not make solely because it may in the long run affect a third party. However, you are at liberty to adopt or discard advises from an external factor pertaining to some personal issues. Why I said some is because some personal issues may be state matter [based upon the ideas of Kenneth Waltz]. This is explicable in the case of a suicidal attempt. If one tries to take his life,fails in the attempt and is apprehended by the authorities, he is to be tried in the law court for attempted suicide which is supposed to be 'personal'. This is my humble postulation as a reaction to your excellent perspective to #life