If someone close to you genuinely wants to die, do you believe you have the right to stop them from doing so?

Question

Further still, who among you feel you not only have the right but the duty to stop someone from killing themselves?

Answer 1

I believe if someone wants to control the destiny to their lives, they are free to do so despite what society or religion associates as acceptable. If you genuinely are close to someone, you would allow them to direct their lives in a path that would make them most happy. If a person is suffering from pain or the hardships of old age, then he has every right to end that suffering.

Answer 2

You have the right to question them on if that is what they really want or not. Some people are scared and when they tell you they want to die they just want you to say ok.

You really just need to understand where they are coming from not try to stop them from their decision. If and when you talk to them tell them to just listen to themselves as they are talking to you. You just sit and listen, let them get what ever it is bothering them out and then ask them to tell you what they really mean and how they feel inside.

A lot of the time, people just want to know someone cares enough to hear what they are saying, not to say they understand what they are going through.

Answer 3

God the allmighty has the time cards and the time sheets. No one puches out early and no one is late. It is all up to him. If someone is not in their right mind then we as a ppl have a moral right to protect and to serve one another. And in answering your second question: My concience won't allow me to sit idle by why someone is trying to kill themselves over a depressed state. Perhaps they are looking for someone to show them they matter. Read John 15:13, we are bound by a decree laid down before the foundation of this earth to love one another as our self.

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Although dying is their choice (a choice that should be accepted if it is merely choosing not to extend one's life, rather than deliberately shortening it), you are obliged to try your hardest to convice them to reconsider and to let them know fully well that people care about them. Aside from that, the ball is in their court. You can try to stop them all you want, but it is their choice.

Answer 6

Depends on the health of the person.
If the person were painfully ill with a terminal disease.....
I believe in death with dignity.

Answer 7

it would all depend on the cercumstances if they were dieing and in pain then I would not try to stop them. but if it was a teanager or young person with deprtion then yes I would.

Answer 8

mm yea. you should stop someone from commiting suicide. if you dont feel comfortable doing so, then you should tell someone who does.

if YOU end up trying to stop this person, make sure you do it in a delicate manner! dont push to hard..that might make them want to commit sucide even more.

Answer 9

Duty, buddy; not right. We are not the masters of life and death; intention has nothing to do with it. I might want to flay, but that doesn't mean I can. I might want to die, but that doesn't mean I can.

Answer 10

Absolutely not.