What is your opinion about suicide?

Question

please write down your job,gender and age,thanks.

Answer 1

I am a high school history teacher age 31. I think suicide is the easy way out. It's selfish and mean. I don't understand how a person could do it and not consider the feelings of those he or she is leaving behind. I know a lot of people do this because they ar sick with depression but they really don't think about what it does to those who are still alive, I have seen friends fall into a deep depression that I really thought might end in suicide and start some sick chain of events all because one of them was too cowardly to deal with life and the everything that goes with it.

Answer 2

Suicide is like any tool if used incorrectly is viewed by the general public as cowardice or selfish if anything people should have the absolute right to self terminate.

If someone determines their likelihood of future survival to be an impossibility than it is justified.

Examples: your in a desert and have the knowledge no one will rescue you and water resources are scare.

You are captured by people that you know will torture you.

You become old too old to enjoy life and are slowly dying to multiple illnesses.

Quadriplegic or paralysis.

Any illness that prevents any ability to propery intergrate and live into society.

You become crippled and cannot work in society and relent the idea of welfare even though it is a fairly decent system but, the people that support it are hardly humble tax payers.

You have a terminal disease that prevents any pleasure in life.

You are a kid that gets beaten up, ridiculed, raped, and tortured everyday by everyone.

It would not be by faulty thinking to assume that living in a world from such a perspective could not seem selfish. Maybe to abrupt and untimely from our perspective. But, not putting ourselves in someone else's shoes that is SELFISH. There comes a point in life where we learn to share and we learn to let go.

It is a sense of hopelessness that leads people to suicide. Some people I believe deserve that right and to not be ridiculed or labeled for it. Such as the medically ill that will only suffer more. When someone decides to turn life support off it's not "SUICIDE" it's just natural.

We as a society except that perfectly well. Even though with help they could have lived a little longer. To what extent should we tolerate this idea and to what extent should we know not to ridicule others for what can be a logical process given the appropriate circumstances.

no, no, and no surveying. Not relevant to the discussion. I've seen a poor man laugh and a rich man cry.

Answer 3

This is a decision taken in a matter of a second, in a depressed moment. If the person could just postpone this act of suicide by about 10 mins to an hour, i'm sure it won't happen. And i'm sure the person would also feel happy to change his/her mind about committing suicide. Also may realise later that it was stupid to even think of suicide.

Answer 4

I feel like there is never anything that is so bad to commit suicide. Days come and go and bad times tend to get better eventually. Suicide hurts so many people and some are never the same...the friends and family especially. I have been suicidal but couldn't do it to my family. I am 33 years old, disabled and a man.

Answer 5

I am conflicted when it comes to suicide.

Suicide is a selfish act. It hurts too many people. The person who kills themselves is free from the pain of their life, yet they inflict a lifetime of hurt on their loved ones.
I also see suicide as being very weak. Life is hard and some people overcome great tragedy and sadness in their lives without tapping out.

On the flipside, I also see it from a freedom point of view, my life, my choice. Who are we to try and stop someone from killing themselves if they are so unhappy that they don't want to be alive?

I do think also that some people confuse not wanting to live and actually wanting to die.

Stay at home mum, female, 22

Answer 6

I do not understand suicide. How could anyone just kill theirselves? I believe that when a person can't think of anyone else or a reason to live then they can take their own lives. I believe that you have to be a sick person to want to end your own life. I had thought about suicide a long time ago because of the way that I had lived but I had always stopped and knew that I had a reason to live. I had my three children to live for.
Unemployed-female-58

Answer 7

Stay at home mom and Ph.D. student, 48 years old. I think that there are situations in which suicide is justified but these are ones in which the person is suffering physically and there can be no remedy for this pain. Dying of bone cancer would be a good example of this. In such situations the person ought to be allowed to die with their loved ones around them and with a medication that will permit them to die peacefully. If that is what they want! Those who think and feel otherwise will not be "killed".

Answer 8

Suicide means killing oneself. But which self? We are complex multidimensional persons.

One talks of a political suicide, a career suicide, a society suicide and so on. What we commonly understand is killing the body. If this is ravaged by intractable pain or incurable disease, are others competent to decide about prolonging such a life?

The pain can be mental. There are cases where a person knowing that he was going to be a permanent liability to his parents because of his disease killed himself out of love for the parents, to save them trouble in their old age.

I find it difficult to condemn all suicides out of hand as cowards.

Answer 9

Although its named as 'committing suicide is act of cowardness', it needs guts and courage to take your own life. If you succeed, you are thru. If you dont, you face a lot of humility,guilt, failure (multifold than before), desparation to prove that u can take ur own life.
But comitting suicide is truly an act of cowardness bcoz it needs courage to face life as it comes. And if before dying,you can prove that u lived your life with dignity to overcome all struggles and even moments when u did not wish to live, then you not only remain an ideal in minds of youngsters in your own kith and kin but also in your belief you can face GOD that you have accepted and overcome through al the struggles that your KARMA gave to you and finally you are a shining star to deserve even a better life than ever before!!!

Answer 10

Cowardly, Weak people does this who dont have guts to face the fact. Instead of that try tofight against that reason which is making you to think of suicide.

Bank Employee, Male, 28 years