2006-10-03 06:14:18 · 12 answers · asked by luvablechic4eva 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
People are complex. I don't think it's possible to say 'everyone is doing this in this situation'. So yes and no.
I've known people who have considered suicide who were not thinking rationally. They knew many reasons why they should not kill themselves, but despite all these reasons they felt hopelessness, despair, and sadness anyway. These are the people who most need support and love to bring them around to another way of thinking.
I've also known people who were pretty rational when they were thinking of suicide. Yet in the cases I'm familiar with their reasoning was based at least in part on faulty data. These are the people who can be reasoned out of suicide if you can track down some of the faulty presumptions and disprove them.
In most cases though, I think people WANT to be convinced not to commit suicide on one level or another. It's reaching and speaking to that level that can be the tough part! Peace.
2006-10-03 06:26:04 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes they are, and sometimes not. It depends on the circumstances under which they commit this stupidity. If one is in unremitting agony from, for instance, cancer which cannot be cured, suicide may seem much more rational that continuing to fight. But lots of people commit suicide through sheer frustration. Their life isn't going well, day by day, in little niggling ways, and they just don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. Not rational, at all, but very common, I imagine.
The best explanation I ever heard of suicide posits that the chief cause is, as Elizabeth Peters was wont to say, 'too much ego in their cosmos.' When all you look at, and consequently all you can see, is your own problems, suicide may seem a rational approach to escape. Best cure is to concern yourself with other people's troubles--gives you lots less time to contemplate your own.
2006-10-03 06:23:07 · answer #2 · answered by kaththea s 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think of that suicides are committed especially because of the fact of what the guy sees as self-interest. that's that the guy supplies some attention to others, yet i think of that especially the biggest undertaking is desirous to flee from an extremely complicated concern, inclusive of actual or emotional discomfort. we don't use the be conscious heroic for pursing self-interest. (i'm not speaking approximately issues like taking a bullet for somebody in an assassination attempt, which isn't suicide because of the fact the point is saving somebody's existence.) on the different hand, whilst human beings communicate approximately suicide as taking the easy way out, i ponder whether they have extremely considered how complicated that's going to be for somebody to make this determination.
2016-10-01 21:33:04 · answer #3 · answered by geddings 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no matter how irrational others may think it is, they think its rational. especially considering what a huge decision it is, it isnt something they thought of in 5 minutes, its obviously taken deep thought for them to come to that conclusion. however it also depends on what you mean by rational. it seems rational to them because they have deeper issues, but in reality they may have a deeper mental issue that is messing with their rationality and making them feel helpless which results in them thinking that that is their only option when its not.
2006-10-03 08:10:30 · answer #4 · answered by kitti7420 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are either trying to get back at someone, to punish them with their death (manipulation) or they are extremely self-absorbed and feel sorry for themselves and no longer want to try.
The only rational decision of suicide is when one's quality of life no longer exists, such as full body paralysis, advanced terminal illnesses, or some other physical ailment that deteriorates.
2006-10-03 07:52:07 · answer #5 · answered by pandora the cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most believe they are thinking rationally, it is for them at that point in their existence. We who have not been there can not understand their torment.
2006-10-03 06:19:36 · answer #6 · answered by June smiles 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most are probably not thinking rationally.
2006-10-03 06:20:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends if you view loss of the survival instinct a form of insanity.
2006-10-03 06:17:27 · answer #8 · answered by Funchy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I do not think so. They act in panic and hate...
You know, if You have to finish something, there is no
time to think. You act. The faster ...
Do You want to know what my cousin did. He killed his
wonderful parents and killed himself. Do You think, when he
reloaded, that he was thinking. He just acted VERY FAST...
That's all.....
2006-10-03 06:33:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not
2006-10-03 08:16:35 · answer #10 · answered by vampiretype 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋