is it anybody's business if someone chooses to commit suicide?

Answer 1

Philosophically, I believe the answer is no - whether or not to continue living in this world is a completely personal decision. And any god who, as the previous poster claims, refuses to grant forgiveness to someone who is in enough pain to choose this path is not a god I want anything to do with.

Unfortunately, in real life the question isn't that simple. Many suicides are committed by folks who are lost in an episode of major depression. For those who may not be aware, clinical depression is an entirely different animal from what the rest of us experience as "having the blues" or feeling sad and upset about something. It's caused by a chemical imbalance and some of its worst symptoms involve shifts in perception and emotion to the point where the person feels completely worthless and can find nothing in life that seems worth living for.

I've experienced this myself, and I have a couple of friends who also suffer from clinical depression or bipolar disorder.Knowing first hand how warped one's perceptions become during an actual episode of clinical depression and how powerless one is to change them, I have on occasion made it my business to do whatever it takes to get someone who's in that place to hold on long enough to get treatment. I don't believe that a decision to suicide made during a major depressive episode is a choice that's made freely and clearly.

Answer 2

Yes. Each person is a unique and precious gift. Everybody looses when someone commits suicide. Suicide is murder. A person may never realize their value if they don't stay long enough.

The urge to commit suicide is usually temporary, we each must strengthen our resolve to not give in and give up. We must fight the good fight, and when we the depression is more than we can bare, it is likely because it is more than anyone can bare alone. That's when we must ask for help. Fortunately people who cared enough to search for answers have used science to discover the cause. There is a neurochemical (like hormones produced by the brain) that is in short supply causing depression. There are also medications that can help restore the normal level of that neurochemical. When someone's body doesn't produce enough insulin it's called diabetes and they need to get help to restore the normal levels. Our need to keep the brain's neurochemicals balanced should not be influenced by embarrassment. We aren't embarrassed to fill our car with gas. We aren't embarrassed to quench our thirst. Why should the brain's needs be treated any different? If it gets to the point where suicide looks like the only answer, get help, there is a better answer.

Answer 3

That's actually a very broad question. While I would like to say it is no one elses business, in life things are never that simple. Is this person a parent? Are their kids under 18? Would said kids be better off? Is the person a child? How would the family be effected? Suicide isn't a lone act. The ramifications can be far reaching. It is not something I oppose, but I do think there are solutions in life, even if they are not fully seen at the time.

Answer 4

Yes because the person that tries to commit suicide can get help. They can change and decided that they aren't depressed and don't want to die anymore. I know I am living prove of that. The support of your family and others can help tramendously. If everyone just said that it didn't matter and that it wasn't there business everyone that ever thought of suicide would kill themselves. I think people should be so harsh on people that try to commit suicide because people to make mistakes, and can't see that there isn't an easy way out.

Answer 5

A person's decisions concerning his own life and death are his own, even if he is a Christian. (The Bible does not say that suicide is a sin. That is an extremely pervasive misconception.)

On the other hand, relatives and friends pay a steep price for that decision.

I guess the question then becomes, "Does a person have the right to knowingly inflict emotional pain on another?"

Answer 6

Anybody who loves this person is left to deal with what they decide to do. In the end I guess the decision is nobodys choice but the person who does it, but I feel its selfish. At the same time its terribly sad to think someone would be so desperate to end whatever pain they were in that way. It's a tough thing all the way around.

Answer 7

Yep.

It's the business of the person who finds the body. They will have to live with that image for the rest of their lives.

It's the business of the loved ones left behind asking WHY?

It's the business of the person who has to take care of the details, such as the funeral, paying outstanding bills and so on.

Suicide is an incredibly selfish act. Get help, you can be happy again.

Answer 8

Definitely, because ignoring someone else's plan to commit suicide is like ignoring someone else's plan to murder a person. You become responsible for it also. Suicide and homicide are the same--you murder a person by doing it.

Answer 9

No it is the decision of the person concerned. Having said that though it is very difficult for loved ones left behind as there is so much guilt associated with grief.

Answer 10

just make sure that person makes all the arrangements first for their own funeral and all their personal belongings, debt and all that. and die with some money in hand with a note for someone can pay to clean up the body.