If you went into the future, and purposely killed yourself, would that be considered suicide?

Answer 1

Weird question.
Yes, I suppose.

Answer 2

If you went into the future and killed yourself and came back then lived until the point where you killed yourself, then you would be murdered by yourself, yet you would have committedd suicide when you originally had killed yourself. (presuming that time travel would work like it did in Back to the Future). Purposely killing yourself is suicide so when decided to kill yourself it would be suicide, but you would still be being killed by another person so it would be murder...therefore it would depend on if you were the one killing or the one being killed!

Plus, bad use of a time machine, and what if you decided later not to kill yourself, then you would have to go through the big hassle of going back in time to stop yourself...then there would be 3 of you and I am sure that some sort of cosmic rip would occur if that happened!

Answer 3

Suicide is "the intentional taking of one's own life." It does not matter whether you take your life in the present, the past or the future, it is still suicide.

Now, if you KNEW you would kill yourself in the future (after having killed yourself in the future), that sure would give you something to look forward to, yes?

Answer 4

To answer this question, we have to keep in mind some points, they are:


When you go to the future, you might or might not come across your future self. That is if he is still alive at that time.
1. Considering that your future self is present. So when you go in future, there will be two person of your name, one you and another your future self. Attempting suicide is considered crime by law, and considered bad by religion. So now if you killed yourself in the presence of your future self, the law and religion will be confused to call it suicide. Because your future self would be still alive.
2. Considering that your future self is not present, that is he is already dead. When you kill yourself now, the law and religion will still be confused to call it suicide, because at that time of future you already dead and, and the law enforcement agents will show your death certificate, which will state that you were dead long ago, so how can you kill yourself when you are already dead?


This question is more confusing if you think deeper, if you go in future say 2020 and killed yourself, that means you will not return in the present time 2006, from which you have gone in the future, that means that you will be ceased to exist in 2006 from now on. And as time goes on, when 2020 is reached you are already dead because you killed yourself earlier by going in the future. So if you are already dead in 2020 how can you kill yourself in 2020?

Summary:
It is confusing, with no clear cut answer.

PS:
Read Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder." in the source link

Answer 5

I'm not sure, but what would happen if you used the time machine and went to the past, because you KNEW you were gonna try to come from the past to kill yourself, so you beat yourself to the punch and went to the past and killed your earlier self before he could come forward to kill your "now" self?

Would you quit existing? if so, then who killed you, if not you?

Hmmmmm. I think this is a LOT more interesting question. Don't you? :-D

Answer 6

Why not?I think if yo kill yourself purposely,it's a suicide anyway.

Answer 7

absolutely

coz u r living in this moment just because u wanna live in the future as well !!!

so that would be suicide according to me

Answer 8

no, there is today me. and 10 years from now me. they are fairly different people. 25 years ago me, really sucked. he was only partially human as he could not walk/talk.

killing 10 years from now me would be murder not suicide.

Answer 9

a waste a perfectly good time machine????
no, just stupid...
if you wanted to off yourself....why waste the time, effort, money and scientific expertise ???? just do it now...

suicide is easy...living is the tough part

Answer 10

It's called 'Murdercide'.