Is committing suicide an act of bravery or a sign of cowardice?

Question

This does NOT CONCERN religious nor sectarian practices.

Answer 1

It takes more courage to live through the hard times and ugly places of life than it takes to commit suicide. It takes more strength to remain in this life when you may just rather leave, because you care more about the ones who love you. You would rather hurt than leave them with a lifetime of hurt. Suicide is not a brave act. It is a selfish act.

Answer 2

Both...and neither at the same time. Human instinct prevents one from harming oneself. So it takes strength. Bravery, or what we like to call bravery. But it also takes a desire to die. People think that as cowardice. The point is, YOU CAN'T SAY WHICH ONE IT IS!!! You're not the person who commited the act, so how can you even judge it?! You can say it's sad, sure. But you can't judge whether it's cowardice or bravery. Maybe someone's afraid of death. Bravery is confronting one's fears. Ouch. Tough one. He might have said he was confronting his fear. You might say he's insane. But he knows what he's doing. Believe it or not, most people know what they're getting into when they go to commit the act. It takes preparation.

Me? I plan on killing myself when I get to the age where I can no longer take care of myself (i.e. need to go to a nursing home). Is that cowardice? Go ahead. Tell me that ending your own life once it has no meaning is cowardice. Suicide is tragic in young people. Especially when it's done by impulse (after serious trauma, such as rape or witnessing murder of a family member, etc.) I hate this topic, personally because
1: It's a subject I'm uncomfortable with
2: It's a subject people generally don't like to touch
3: Because the people who do talk about it are extremely judgmental because they haven't been in those shoes. People think they know everything. "Oh yeah, this guy's a coward, blah, blah, blah." How the hell do you know?

Y'know, this just proves that when people know something, they really know nothing.

Answer 3

Bravery depends on the why. Cowardice I think not. The purity of the human heart and it's innocents severed are enough to make anyone think they should, Perhaps that's the why, in the I don't like this world act. Religious and sectarian have played a huge role in this event you can't omit these. But either way, unless your termanily ill, or a pedifile, or serial killer. Human instinct does not paly a role in this event, it's purly human conditioning and cause. If you wanna... go ahead! more pizza for me then.

Answer 4

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 5

It's an act of hopelessness and despair. And very, very sad.
It's easy to say that suicide is an act of cowardice, but to commit an act that goes against the extremely strong will to live has to be very difficult.
But I wouldn't call it an act of bravery either.
One case where I might call suicide an act of cowardice, is when the person committing suicide leaves small children to be cared for by others.

Answer 6

Cowardice....My sister tried and failed,and I watched her go though the whole process(being in a regular hospital,then a psych hospital)People sometimes don't realize that life has hards and that death isnt the only solution.After she went to the psych hospital and saw everyone else there,she realized that some poel really are messed up and she should thank God that she has her sanity.I think a lot of people have their moments where they think things will never get any better, and instead of dealing with it they decide to find an easy way out...

Answer 7

Neither. We all hurt ourselves in a variety of ways. Suicide is generally just another way to hurt ourselves. Sometimes it takes courage.

Suicide is generally an act of desperation. The desperation is based on a perception of reality and the future. Changing one's perceptions usually ends the desire for suicide. I wouldn't call it cowardice, but a belief about the self, the present and the future.

Answer 8

It depends on the situation, if a person does it as an act of self-sacrifice or to prevent evil from being done with or agains them (like really unescapable abuse POWs that are going to be forced to kill others stuff like that) is totally justifiable, but doing it as an escape from life is cowardice (well not exactly cowardly just hopelessness; you wouldn't understand unless you've been there)though to the person to get away from the hurt when literally no one cares I might lean in, but in most cases we hear about the person could have gotten help to learn how to cope.

Answer 9

Sacrificing your life to save someone else is an act of bravery. Any form of suicide (no matter how justified the circumstances make it appear) is absolute cowardice.

Killing yourself only takes a second, working through your life struggles and pains takes much more determination and courage.

Answer 10

Well...I can't see any circumstance in which a person would be so deluded to think that suicide could ever be brave...and as for cowardice...maybe...depending on the reason for the suicide...my advice: DON'T DO IT!