Is suicide ever the right choice?

Question

I know we're always trained to tell people that suicide isn't the answer to depression, and to try to do everything we can to prevent depressed people from killing themselves. But in some cases, do you think suicide can actually be the right choice? Do you think that, while most suicidal people just need help, some might actually be right to think they should kill themselves to end their sadness? (This is assuming the person is physically healthy, suicide when one has a debilitating or deadly illness is a different issue.)

- I am not contemplating suicide! This isn't a personal question just a theoretical one.

- Isn't it true that some people never get over depression? This is the type of circumstance I'm assuming.

I mention this because alot of people talk about hurting those who care about you... We forget that some people, nobody cares about them and they are completely alone in the world. Actually that alone would make someone pretty depressed... Most people have some sort of family or friends, but there are definitely people who don't.

Answer 1

How can you know that? As far as I know no dead man came back to say "i was wrong", right or wrong exists only when u are alive.

Answer 2

I definately don't think someone should kill themselves due to being too sad, because there are a lot of better solutions to cure sadness than death. But if you're talking about someone who feels depressed in that the person feels there is nothing left to live for, or feels that he/she would be in a better place when he/she dies, then i guess it could logically be a right choice. However, I think most ppl will never be in a position to make that decision because pretty much no one really knows what the meaning of life is or what comes after death, so I think that a decision to kill oneself is an irrational one and should be prevented.

I mean you gotta think most ppl that are really depressed are probably not thinking clearly, so I think at least they should sit on it for a while and rethink it when he/she is feeling ok. Get some help maybe, and I think when that person can think straight and really reason with whether or not he/she should die the answer is probably going to be no and I think that person will find a better answer then death to get over whatever their problem is.

Answer 3

Wow! a twist in the question but good.

Hmmm! Lets do some reverse engineering here. If a person is sad what is the extreme you can think of

1. Illness (AIDS or some deadly disease)
2. Loss of assets
3. Loss of someone very close
4. Loss of self confidence and the feeling of inferior complex when with people. (he/she thinks of as being isolated always by people around him/her)
5. Unstable mind due to some physical deformity and deficient money to correct em. (plastic surgery for instance)
6. Loss of love
7. Inability to cater to the money owed to someone within the specified date. The person might be threatened and hence sacrifices to gain money from insurance.

And thats it. Lets now classify these points as stupid - sensible.
attempts to commit suicide.

Stupid - 2,3,4,6,7
Sensible - 1,5

I can answer to the question to the sensible points of committing suicide. The reason being that though stupid points cause a lot of mental damage it all requires some effort and a clear mind to come out of the situation.

Points 1,5 however are sensible reasons. Cause they are severe. The heart and the brain works together to keep informing the person every second that he is useless, he has been cursed, he is not liked, he is a carrier of some disease which has no cure and so on.

A boy with a deformed face for instance would start understanding the pain of being neglected at an young age. His brain at this point would keep feeding him the information/lesson like - "dont go there, they will make fun of you. you will be stoned and so on". The actual culprit here is your brain. What he says is how you react.

At this point. There is no way out when your heart and brain work together. Coupled with fear, irritation, pain it worstens and leads to death.

In my opinion. some might actually be right to think they should kill themselves to end their sadness.

If you can give that boy some money to help correct his deformed face,
If you could atleast give the boy a community of respect,
If you could cure AIDS, like Malaria or flu,

Then there is a hope.

But if all doors are closed and if you

Stone the small boy,
Isolate him and make him wander around,
Make fun of him,
And do the same with the person with AIDS,

He has no hope. Life ends with sadness. Or he could become a lunatic/monster/killer.

Chao!

Answer 4

There is a small window during depression when a psychotic event is present that allows suicide action. There is no bad choice during psychosis as the thinking process has collapsed. There is an insult unto death from friends and family . I missed mine as the psychosis had been reached earlier than the feeling of being a total outcast to friends and family. During psychosis pain is no longer felt . Recovery is never easy or fast in a mental collapse. Why would you ever think about this seriously ? You cannot reach a person to help them during psychosis until the chemicals are reduced and the mind can function again.

Answer 5

checking out because things arent going your way is a cowardly, selfish and thoughtless answer to a temporary problem. Nobody is depressed all of the time, even people with severe depression. I do understand that it would solve the money problems, relationship problems, for that person, but it would hurt parents, sisters, brothers, friends and pets, they wouldnt be able to understand how that person could be so selfish, so wrapped up in themselves with zero regard to the people in their lives... and then most people will end up thinking that the person was a coward, weak, stupid, and immature. There are small children with horrific diseases that want to live, there are burn victims suffering pain you and I cant even imagine, there are vetrans of wars that are maimed, lost limbs, or worse, people that were born with terrible afflictions that would give anything to live longer than the disease is stealing. A short sighted person cant seem to stop feeling sorry for themselves and think that the pain they are feeling is worse than they can handle and want it to stop so they think killing themselves will solve it. Well, it sure solves one thing, they dont have to worry about bills, work, cars, clothes, friends, family or society, but.... if they waited a day or two, things do change, they get better, they just dont think it will. Pretty lame.... pretty pathetic... I feel bad for the family and the pets, and friends, because the rest dont really cae, and not matter what the note says... everyone knows the real reason, because they were a wuss, and most everyone will end up being disgusted by them and will think they are idiots. what ever is making them sad today is the thing they wont even be able to remember in a year... it isnt something they can change their mind about later, also... if they stopped worrying about them selves for a few minutes and went to help someone who has a reason to be sad, like a woman, whos dream is to see paris is lying in the hospital dying from brain cancer, bone cancer, liver cancer and still has a smile on her face... if they just cleaned up all of the magazines in the house and took them to a assisted living center and dropped them off to the senior citizens, so happy, thrilled to see a visitor and love to read anything, always smiling, working to knit blankets for homeless people, or if the person could just go volunteer at a food bank, or some other worthy effort, the attention would come off of themselves adn they would make people happy, then they would feel better about themselves...

Answer 6

In the scenario you offer? I say no. It is never a right choice. People are suicidal when they are depressed. Depression is always internal.

However, the world has benefited from the suicides of certain criminals over the years. Some were on death row, for example. I can see how this is a best choice for them and for society, even though it still might not be "right".

Answer 7

I thought of suicide a few times. The only thing that ever stopped me was the thought of my father and what it might do to him. He has loved me my whole life, supported me through my up's and down's. No matter how much I WANTED to do it, I couldn't because I didn't want to hurt him. No matter how bad I felt at the time, I could not hurt him that way. The one person that loved me no matter what. I needed help, help he couldn't give me, but help he would go to the ends of the earth to GET me if he only knew! Physically healthy, but afraid to admit that what I suffer from is genetic. I did not want to blame him either.
Suicide is NEVER the right choice. SOMEONE will listen. SOMEONE ALWAYS CARES!!!!

Answer 8

Suicide is never the best Choice. 1. You can find help (mentally) before molesting a child. 2. If you cannot work to pay child support, i doubt they can make it off your ss either. Just find an under table job to help support your kids. 3. Some prisoners find a new life/happiness in prison, and debt is not forever There are always alternatives.

Answer 9

Suicide never the right choice. May be your problem has a solution and you have not seen it yet. By SUICIDE you end your world and close the door to any coming possible solutions. I think there r always a better choice.

Answer 10

No it is not the right choice. I think people that lose all hope need immediate intervention.

I suppose if you knew you were going to be severly tortured, like in a war or a POW, suicide might be an easier way to die.

Answer 11

Yes.
There are many situations where I have had to put my own thoughts aside and concede that suicide in some circumstances was the right thing.
Think of the victim of a horrendous sexual attack and the offender kills himself before he can be caught. (right /wrong?)
What about the man with no relatives who cannot live without his dead wife.
The soldier who throws himself on a live grenade to save the general.
The mountain climber who cuts his lifeline so his companions will live.
Suicide is what Jesus committed when he could have saved himself simply by telling lies