Do animals think of sucide?

Question

or is it just humans

Answer 1

THE BEST QUESTION EVER!
Yeah my pet rat put a gun up to his head, he was then throw en into the psyche ward.
O and three weeks ago my turtle tried to cut his wrists.
But he didn't need to go into a psyche ward he just went into his shell..god that's corny!

Answer 2

What a question! Well, animals are souls, much as humans are souls, and the Bible even says at Ecclesiastes 3:19-20:" there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity. All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust."
However, the next question is, "do animals have the same brain as do humans? Or, are animals created in God's image as humans according to Genesis 1:27? The answer to both questions is an emphatic No. Therefore, since animals DO NOT have a complex brain like that of humans, but rather base all their actions on instincts, it is simply IMPOSSIBLE for them to think of committing suicide. It is only humans who lack respect for life that contemplate suicide.

Answer 3

ill or injured animals of many categories will act in such techniques as to assure a swifter end to their suffering, and this looks to comprise whale beachings. Whale beachings additionally are one reason at the back of the qualifier "foreseeable," in that it appears that evidently wholesome whales might stick to a ill chief whilst the latter seashores--as social animals, they instinctively have confidence their chief, which under maximum circumstances does not reason them to their doom, so their unpredicted (to them) beaching will no longer be able to be considered definitely suicidal. For that be counted, a rabbit that walks out into an open field whilst there's a hungry owl close by could be appearing an action notably much sure to bring about loss of existence--yet no longer foreseeably so. Nor might an animal that dies protecting its youthful inevitably be considered suicidal, whether the enemy is something notably lots impossible to defeat; after all, the enemy might desire to retreat if it does not look extremely actually worth the difficulty, so specifically situations protection works. additionally lemmings leaping off cliffs is a fantasy.

Answer 4

TRUE STORY:
I used to own a cat that was suicidal. She was old & raggety & blind in one eye & I guess she wanted to be put out of her misery. She would rummage in the garbage can outside & find plastic baggies & put them over her head. She would then sit right behind the wheel of the truck. If this had happened once I would write it off as a fluke. But she did it several times. Each time we would scoop her up before she could get hit & take the baggy off of her.
When she did die, it was not the way she chose. She froze in the winter.

Answer 5

I don't think animals think of suicide, or if they do, if they think of it in the same way humans do.
Many people choose suicide as an option because they feel so overwhelmed by the emotional pain they're experiencing, or overwhelmed by so many negative things happening in their lives and don't know how to juggle it all. (Probably other thngs as well).
All animals, except for humans, have a much more basic level of existance...they don't have the same complex emotions that humans do, don't require the same complex processes required to function in everyday life, and generally don't experience the same things in their lives that would lead a person to feel suicidal.
Not to say that animals don't have emotions and experience feelings and such...it's more complex in humans though, and more complex emotions lead to more complex ways of dealing with them.

Answer 6

Does a two , three, four or five year old child think of suicide? Probably not with any concept of death as we know it.Some animals are rated as compared to the ages of two, three, four and five year old humans. I do believe that animals have a greater capacity for thinking and feeling than humans give them credit for.

Answer 7

I doubt that animals "think." Animals that have an instinctive action that results in their death appear to have committed suicide, but I doubt that they knew such an action would result in their death. Survival is a very strong instinct. Some animals who unwittingly place themselves in mortal danger may do so because they are ill, but I very much doubt that any animal contemplates suicide any more than they contemplate life.

Answer 8

Nope

Answer 9

I think animals can become depressed just as humans do, although I'm not sure if they contemplate suicide.

Answer 10

my dog does everytime she jumps the fence and runs out into the street