is SUICIDE an ACT of BRAVERY or COWARDICE?

Question

i don't wanna hear about how selfish it is blah blah.......i just want to know if you think it takes bravery or cowardice.... thats all.......

Big Jay.... im sure its not EASY to end your own life...... try even cutting your own finger on purpose

Answer 1

Neither. If you are talking about someone suffering from clinical depression, then inevitability takes the place of rational choice. Anyone who has been close to someone unfortunate enough to be suffering severe depression will know that any normal attempt to influence or reason with them will fail because their perception of life and their sense of will are not coloured by the same rationality or logic. No one will ever really know what goes on in someone else's head at the best of times. Even those who have attempted suicide cannot know the mindset of someone who, for want of a better word, succeeded. Anyone who has seen or experienced how frightening and utterly devastating depression is would never say that selfishness was involved.

Answer 2

Actually, it is a act of pain and desperation. It takes great strength to follow through so cowardice isnt it. I have been very close several times and didn't follow through because I was scared of what it i didn't succeed and who I would hurt. I am glad now that I didn't follow through but back then it was the only thing I wanted was for the crap to stop. And I didn't care how. I was tried and fed up with all the mental pain. Any one who thinks it is a act of bravery or cowardice has never been face to face with the idea seriously.

Answer 3

It's an act of cowardice to face sadness.
Suicide ends all probability for solutions to problems but what's worse, it also ends any chance of happiness that person would have.
Bravery would involve perserverance in the face of depression, which would ultimately lead to success.

Answer 4

I don't think anyone should judge unless they have been around someone they love that has committed suicide.
Each suicide attempt is for different reason.

In answer to your question, i say an act of bravery in a way,

Answer 5

cowardice or valour doesn!t come into this subject big man.This thought about doing or thinking about doing this pointless act, is just reaction to either depression or despair, when someone wants to give up something so precious that when there time does come naturally they would if they were not in this depressed mood, probably give everything they possess for just one more minute, Savvy?

Answer 6

medically it is bravery because the depressed cannot take their own life.
there has been a problem with medication causing suicide in young people.
As they become ill they loos the will to do anything, but as the medication starts to reduce the depression they get to a stage where they can do something about there lives and they kill themselves!
why is it cowardly to kill yourself?

Answer 7

Sorry to give a "wooly" answer but I believe its a combination of both - cowardice because it is a get out clause, but brave to have the gumption to do it and not just think about it, especially as it goes against human survival instincts.

Answer 8

That's definitely a complicated question. I honestly think it varies by circumstance. Committing an act such as suicide does indeed take courage, but it's also giving up. That said, I would say it's more of a cowardice act.

Answer 9

I believe that suicide is an act of surrender. It is neither brave nor cowardly to surrender. It is showing that you are the bigger person, handing in the white flag.

Answer 10

both, i mean you need to have some balls to top yourself but also i feel someone that wants to end it all probably feels there is no one there to help with the situation. and thinks by ending it all it will solve everything, which it wont because it wont solve the hurt or the grieving or the guilt left behind on everyone else involved.