Suicide...?

Question

Cowardly escape of the weak or final brave statement of the strong?

Answer 1

Suicide, can be both, depending on the circumstances. If you were to kill yourself to protect your family, your friends, someone you cared about, would you all still consider that to be cowardly?
And killing yourself from depression isn't cowardly, it's a path, that some people take, who have used every other method they know of to cope with pain, or w.e is bothering them, they've exhasuted all other measures, and find that this is the best way thing to do. Suicide can be an act of humility, pride, love, guilt, jealousy..etc...not all of them are noble reasons to die of course, but that dosen't mean they're cowards. If you were facing your own death wouldn't you be sobbing, and trying to find a way out of it to live! you'd probally do most anything to survive, these people are willing to surpass that fear, last time i checked, overcoming fears, is not a "cowardly" thing to do. and i've been put in situations like this, i'm manically depressed, and all that jazz, but i've found ways to get past the idea of suicide.

The point is, certain situations can turn it into something noble, others do seem very pointless, but far from cowardly. and to the person who said it's a fix for a temporary problem, un-fourtunantly, your right, most people problems can be over-come when it comes to mental illness, but that's cause we're all basing our beliefs on this matter by personal experience, we have no idea what suicidal people are thinking, and you all have to remember that things effect diffrent people, in diffrent ways.

so my answer is, it's not cowardly, but it's not always a statement.

Answer 2

It depends on the context.

If a person were facing a seriously painful (and certain) death, it seems to be the smart thing to cheat the pain and misery. To end life while living - not while painfully losing life. There is strength in taking the "next step" by choice. Most people are too afraid of the unknown to take such a step. Many also believe, for religious reasons that suicide is a serious sin against God's wish (that they die in horrible pain?).

But suicide CAN be the escape of a weak person, as well.

Depression creates a chemical imbalance in the brain that weakens our ability to see hope in the future and/or to have the strength to find such hope. Depression often happens after a person tries hard for sometime to be happy, yet meets with repeated failure. Such failure does weaken a person, emotionally.

Why and how does a person end up this way? Often they feel isolated, without friends or family to help. It can be a tough thing to do (if you are in this situation) to reach out to a doctor or other stranger, when those who should care, don't. But that is the best thing, because finding (outside) strength somewhere is better than losing the gift that life is - simply because your own inner strength is failing. No person is an island unto themselves. At least they shouldn't be.

What is truly amazing, is that an understood chemical imbalance causes suicidal depression. What's more amazing is that a pill can correct that imbalance and restore a person's strength to live and fight for another day. It feels good to feel that good again.

Finally - Thinking about death invariably forces us to much more deeply appreciate life. It's okay to ask the questions. It's also important to get the right answers.

Answer 3

I consider it an escape...I don't know if I would call it cowardly, but I think that there are other ways to solve a problem.

I did have a friend that once said he would rather die as a brilliant burst of colors than fade and disappear like all the rest. Yet, I disagree. I want my family to remember me and the legacy I leave for them as a positive life of working from the bottom to the top.. I don't want them to think of some poor person who thought the only way out was to take their life.

Answer 4

Hi Oksana_Rossi,
When someone truly wants to commit suicide, it is often because they believe it is the only answer to their problems.... Some people however get suicidal, not because they want "to die", but because that is the only way they know how to ask for help.... Either way they should always be taken seriously... Let the professionals decide, which it is and the best way to treat it..
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Unfortunately, sometimes people who do not really want to die.. try make what they think is a false attempt, but something goes wrong... and they succeed..
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Have your ever heard the words, as a last resort in life, when you have done all you can do, there is nothing else left, except to cry... These are the words of a person with a "normal mental state of mind"....
Some people, who attempt suicide, are truly psychologically impaired and self-mutilation, or attempted suicide seems normal to them....
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Every case is different, one can not judge..without knowing any background, at all..........................


Thanks, for the question!

My regards!

Answer 5

Both.

Samaruai's used to do this ritual called seppuku to end their life when they lost a battle or are capture by the enemy. To do so was honorable.

It is cowardly when there are other means of getting through a situation. An example would be if a person jumped off a building because family life is stressful and they are filing for bankruptcy.

Answer 6

brave strong very hard escape. those of you that say cowardly have you ever tried it? probably not, also you have no clue what is happening, whether it can be solved or not. Because not every problem does have a solution, but to completely end it. It's just like saying someone that is seriously ill (terminal illness) that it is selfish for them to want to die, in one for or another people who kill themselfs or try to are sick to.

Answer 7

definetely a cowardly escape for the weak. Suicide is the most selfish thing a person can do to. Just think of all the people you affect with it. Most people just can't take the mental side of it. A person going through this needs to see a doctor and check up on their personal faith

Answer 8

Bravely escape of the strong.

Answer 9

You can't be weak and commit suicide. Try it if you want. It's not easy. If people talk about situations where they feel kind of in danger like rock climbing and sky diving as bravery for facing fear and death, is not putting yourself in a situation of deliberate certain death the ultimate rejection of fear, and thus the ultimate act of bravery?

Though I guess it would be a little more brave if the fear of living didn't factor in as the other option...

So really, the less reason you have to kill yourself, the more brave you are for commiting suicide....?

Answer 10

I think it must take a lot of courage to kill yourself, since it goes against all one's evolutionary programming. Think of the laziest people you ever knew and ask yourself whether they would be likely to commit suicide. No, obviously. So those who can kill themselves are not lazy or cowardly, they are just profoundly unhappy, perhaps horribly lonely or dejected, or have thought themselves into a nasty place in the mind that they cannot extricate themselves from. It's impossible to judge the state of another person's mind. Sometimes a person you thought was balanced and successful and happy suddenly throws themselves in front of a bus. So watch closely the people you love; they may be having dark thoughts that will lead them down the path to suicide.