Suicide Saving Lives (Arguments)

[1023esquimaltrd]

Sorry my battery is dying, cannot articulate my whole comment. Turn your gaze away from the weak, and focus your energy on those with something to offer.

[1023esquimaltrd]

Some people suffer so much that they give up on life, and you would like to make it easier for them to sneak out the back door. I say we make these weaklings suffer more. Don't support the weak links in society, or you will only encourage their defreatest

[tripvids420]

Psychiatric medication and therapy is a scam. A therapist offers nothing a bunch of regurgitated ideas and no emotion or genuine compassion. A stranger who doesn't truly care about you cannot help you. Depressed people feel the way they do because they don't feel connection with others/society. I can understand it, society is fucked up, that's why you have to just trust yourself and live for yourself. Life would be simple if our lifespans were short and sweet (30's/40ish.lol)

[constantresearcher34]

No I am not christian ,but I do believe that life is sacred and something worth cherishing. This is my personal opinion: I don't like the idea of pushing a view sociologically that suicide is an expectable means of ending a life even if one decided personally that theologically or philosophically it was. I foresee far to many implications it could have on the psych of some people just by having that door open. I don't believe all suicide is insane but I don't believe that makes it acceptable.

[jusguyz]

naw... about the only thing I can see is allowing a person a peaceful death instead of death from a horrific disease. Beyond that they are on their own. I think I may have had some form of depression most of my life. The death of a loved one set off a major depression. Medication got me through an unbearable period. I think depression, like other disease, is a risk of ageing and other life factors. Depression is not rational by itself but has more to do with mental fitness.

[RobNorthampton]

It's a difficult one. When you are clinically depressed, your whole outlook on life changes. You wonder how people can jog along with life so happily, and death seems like a relief from the misery.

When you feel better, you look back on those bleak times and wonder how you could ever have seen everything in such a harsh light.

Most people go through depression at some time during their lives. It's an illness the same as a physical one, and one from which you can recover.

[RobNorthampton]

That being said, there are those that go through years and years of suffering, and no amount of pill-popping or therapy will ever help them. Let them die? It's a hard decision to make...

[RobNorthampton]

Let's do a 'what if?' What if one of your close family members is in this situation in the distant future. Physically, they are okay, but just want to end it all. There's a cyanide capsule on the table between you, and *you* have to make the choice whether you take the capsule from them, or allow them to take it while you watch them die...

[RobNorthampton]

What would you decide? If you take the capsule away, is it to make you feel better? On the other hand, if you allow them the capsule, are you not in some way guilty of helping to kill them?

As I said, it's a difficult choice,and one that we don't usually get a say in. If someone is determined enough, they will end it anyway.

[ntumnus]

Interesting views from everyone. I do think that suicide is NOT an 'insane' thing to do, I think it is a very selfish thing to do. Whether you believe in a God or not, whether you have a terminal illness or not, or whether you have no family or friends. Suicide, in most cases, says something about the person. Usually that they were too selfish to pick themselves up and move on with life. To make something out of it. I have been in this situation myself and this is what I have found to be true

[Amiya0Kyuketsuki]

Suicide is a person's choice, Mac. I stand behind you all the way. There is no God to tell us what to do, and this is almost like the abortion debate.... IT'S A FETUS!!! NOT AN UNBORN CHILD!!!!

[ZombiePowerDrink]

I somewhat agree with you. But with controlled suicide would come corruption . Also I think that society must respect and protect any human life. But if this were legal they would also have to make all drugs legal on the rational that people have a right to do with their body what they want as long as it docent hurt others. But suicide may potentially cause severe psychological trauma on their friends and family . So I still would say no. But who am I to decide.

[bulafritz]

I think sending people to looney bins was more compassionate than letting them rot on the street as homeless people. I've been depressed for 15 years now. Drugs keep me on an even keel. But I still agree with most of your argument. It's all about being humane and giving people choice.

[PocketFire]

your mentally weak dude

[Escapist166]

Ultimately we have to look at the net societal impact, allowing someone to kill them self may end their pain but it will also create pain in their friends and family.

It kind of sad that in some cases it impossible for all parties to be happy.

[l0gically]

You may be aware of this, but much of the way that we view suicide is cultural. Word has it that the Japanese, for example, have an entirely different perspective- that being, there's nothing wrong with it - it is a life choice people have like any other.