Are people who commit suicide cowards, which is a popular stereotype, or actually braver than the rest of us?

Answer 1

Cowards, unwilling to face life's ups and downs. They take the easy way out of situations and kill themselves. Personally, the world is better off without most of them. However, they are selfish also, and do not think of the lives they affect besides their own. I wouldnt piss on them if they were on fire. Good luck! :)

Answer 2

People who are willing to sacrifice their lives for just causes are very brave individuals. I am reluctant to call any other kind of suicidal person a coward though, because they have mental disorders that cause them to magnify pain and negative emotions in such a way that a normal situation for us is agony for them. Under these circumstances, it takes a very strong person to have the motivation to live, and it is understandable that some people view things so bleakly that they see no alternative but death.

In my opinion though, it just seems kind of wrong to talk about cowardice or bravery for two reasons. First, the person may actually be subjected to some really unbearable circumstances where any person would want to kill himself and it isn't a question of being brave. Secondly, major depression is a mental disorder, so to assign complete responsibility to a person in this situation and say that he has the same kind of control over his feelings and actions that we do is unfair. Calling a depressed person a coward is kind of like calling a mentally retarded person stupid.

Answer 3

Neither. They are simply people that have lessons to learn in life but are too closed minded to see past their current situation. If you end your life earlier than it should be without serving whatever purpose you had here, you will return in some other life form and go through the same type of situations until you do learn. Might as well have an open mind, look at life positively, and then you won't have to come back and do it all, all over again.

Answer 4

Probably closer to cowardice, but really more utterly self-involved. These are people who think that their problems are SO devastating, insurmountable and unique that there is NO solution EVER. Good grief! How absolutely wrapped up in your own little world do you have to be to see your problems as that monumental? This is why so frequently you find that suicidal people have something mentally wrong with them. The strongest human instinct is self-preservation. To overcome that, you basically have to NOT be functioning at full capacity. They become so completely involved in their own misery that they are no longer what we would call sane.

Answer 5

Its a shame that anyone who commits suicide is that down in the dumps to achieve that! Theyre not in the right state of mind therefore see suicide this as a better option or out huh? good question.

Answer 6

Depends. If they REALLY have a reason - like they found out they were HIV positive, or if they prisoners for life in a harsh country, or if they were going to be stoned to death, or if they were chained to a bed for nine months straight and burns on their *** from sitting in their own sh!t for months on end, and had no way out of these situations...well...anything that bad, I could UNDERSTAND why they would do it...but I do not condone it in ANY way.

The ********* that jump off a bridge because their boyfriend broke up with them or because they didn't get into Harvard = cowards, scum of the lowest form. I have no sympathy whatsoever for them.

Answer 7

People who commit suicide wants help, no one comes, and that person cannot figure life out for there selves. CARE ABOUT PEOPLE EVEN IF ITS JUST FOR A SECOND.

Answer 8

I see where you're coming from on how they could be braver but... this question is too simple to answer. They are definetly cowards.. anyone who can't put through life and it's challenges, is a coward.

enough said =)

Answer 9

They are just unaware that if they kill them self they do not end them self. They never die only the body dies. We are eternal spirit souls. If one takes their own life they become a ghost who suffers incessantly the misery they experienced at the moment of death. They are so attached to misery and suffering that they never get out of it. If one wants to end all suffering they should take up the process of self realization and see things as they are and get out of the illusion of the material world. Suicide never ends suffering, it only prolongs it. GO to http://www.stephen-knapp.com for universal self realization

Answer 10

in my opinion anyone who commits suicide is selfish !!
there is someone or many people that love ,rely,or just enjoy that person so for them to only worry about themselves and not take into consideration the people around them and in their life is plain selfish...