Is suicide right or wrong?

Because your not Facing Life. You are just giving up.

 

Wrong. Done

 

Who are you to tell someone how to face life?

 

Sometimes when you lose the will to live then you are just living like an empty shell with no ambition and nothing really to gain since you have given up. Suicide is a way out of this. Even when you have tried to get help, whether it was with medication or counseling/therapy, it just doesn't work.

Some people don't like living with mental illnesses that require you to be heavily medicated that leave you like a zombie the whole day. Is it cowardly? perhaps but its people's choice to choose what they want to do... they want to kill themselves then whatever... it just sad when it does happen

 

Personal Opinion Alert!


I see it as completely wrong in every way.



I have never considered it nor will I ever. Life cannot possibly be so bad that you need to just end it.

Life on earth is hell.


We weren't put in this world to kill ourselves.

Just my opinions.

 

I don't really have an opinion on it. I don't think anybody else should have an opinion neither. It's a very personal thing and has nothing to do with anyone else other than the person comitting suicide.. We don't have the right to tell people how they should live their lives.

 

i belive suicide is rediculous. ok so you had a hard life or w.e ur reason is get over it. if ur a kid then u have your whole like in head of you and if ur a grown man then be a man not a child.

 

I don't think suicide in itself is either right or wrong. It's just an action someone has taken. There is no way of measuring the rightness or wrongness of such an action that couldn't be disputed with an equally acceptable opposing view.

If you wanted to attempt to determine whether a specific suicide was right or wrong, I suppose you could look at the consequences of it and then try and weight up the positives and negatives. But how do you compare the outcomes? On the one hand, one person's suffering has ended, but on the other, someone else has to deal with that person's death. You can't quantify these things and so you can't easily compare them in order to make a judgment.

Alternatively you could use a value or rights based view of determining the right or wrongness of the suicide, but this would completely depend on arbitrary opinions based on your culture or personal beliefs.

 

Suicide is a personal choice. It is not morally correct for it to be made illegal.

 

Well put. Besides, psychological evaluations are not evidence, so even if the people emotionally affected did come forward, there's no way for them to prove that they are in fact emotionally affected. They can say that the person who killed themselves affected them in drastic ways, but there's no way to prove that.

The only thing left is the physical, and you're killing yourself so it boils down to: "Is harming oneself illegal, or is making it illegal justified?" Which then comes to the point of do you own yourself, and are you allowed to do with your property as you please. If the answer is no, then the reigning government is invalid and should be dismantled. If the answer is yes, then you may kill yourself, and it is right as you are doing with your property as you please.


Not to mention, living is cowardly, killing yourself is quite a feat of strength. We aren't programmed to kill ourselves, we're programmed to survive. So going against the programming shows strength, and courage, whereas going with the programming is nothing extraordinary.

 

[I haven't read many of the replies.]

I, personally, have, I suppose, conformed to thinking of such topics, especially the subjective ones, as neither, nor. What I mean by this is that, when I think of suicide, I don't categorize it into a right or wrong.

If something cannot be seen as right, not because it's immoral, etc, but because it's simply not that kind of topic, then in no way can it be seen as wrong. Of course, there's always the argument of, "Well, it's unethical.", "Well, it's immoral."

That doesn't quite make it right or wrong. So, I guess what I'm saying is, I see suicide as a subjective choice.

Is it brave? It is cowardly? Well, that's subjective, and totally dependent on the situation. [Keep in mind that it being brave doesn't make it right. / It being cowardly doesn't make it wrong.]

For instance, we're in war. I am a high ranking officer with vital information about my sides weapons. Information that, if the other side had, would be used to crush us inevitably. One day, I'm captured, and it just so happens that I can't withstand their torture methods for much longer.

I kill myself.

You see? This would be considered an act of bravery, in some ways. So many situations can be concocted, many of which show different attributes. This is why the question of whether suicide is right or wrong is a totally misguided concept.

 

In my opinion, things are only going to get better. You can resort to many other things than suicide if you're going through rough times.

 

Suicide in my opinion is wrong as it messes up other peoples lives as far as having to pay for the funeral, counciling, ect
but euthanasia should be right

 

Suicide is wrong, as it affects morethan just the person commiting the suicide

 

People are incredibly lucky to be granted life in the first place, for those that can not cope with the stress of life, suicide may be a good option for them. To me, life is a challenge, I try to do my best to overcome everything that it throws at me.
I also don't have the guts to commit suicide, I could never bring myself to do it.

 

Yeah i agree. It's wrong. And most ppls would change their mind if they could.