Suicide is the coward's way out?

Question

Personally, I disagree.

What are your opinions on this?

Answer 1

Suicide is not a cowardly or easy thing for anyone to do. It is our basic nature to fight to survive, making a choice to leave this existence is never an easy decision. I am not condoning suicide, I believe life is precious, but I do not believe that a person so in emotional pain and turmoil that they feel death is the only option should be or will be punished. I believe that suicide is the saddest way out and the most painful for those left behind. I do however completely support assisted suicide for terminally ill people who wish to end physical pain and die with some human dignity. I have never understood how it is viewed as inhumane to let your pet suffer rather than to peacefully end it's suffering and yet somehow it is considered morally reprehensible to extend the same loving end to a human being who can actually request it.

Answer 2

I don't know, it's whatever someone wants.

If you have decided that you want to end your existance permanently, I'd have to assume that you wouldn't be too concerned about being a "coward" but one definition or another.

I think there are different circumstances. There are probably a lot of people who commit suicide who really ought not to have because it was a tough situation that would have passed or could have been remedied in one way or another.

But I mean if someone has been diagnosed with some painful disease and has just a slow process of wasting away physically and mentally to look forward too, then it seems like a more noble way to go out.

What is a coward anyways though? Are we going by the hero-coward scale where the guy who went to Iraq and killed tons of militants is at the top and the guy who felt dispair and jumped off a bridge is at the bottom?

In summary, I think that a lot of the suicides that occur are needless and not done with good reason, but there are certainly cases where one might take it as the more graceful option to what they face. It is in a way selfish because it's all the people in your life who are going to have to spend the rest of their lives making sense of your choice while you're the last one who will find out about it. We're all individuals and we're all just here for a short while before we disappear forever. Everyone's choice is there own, in the whole scheme of things it's all pretty meaningless from any grander perspective unless you believe in some religion type story.

Answer 3

I don't' know that I would say it's the cowards way out, I would say that it's the easy way out. It's not just cowards who want to take the easy way out of things it's someone who can't see a change in their situation, someone who's in so much pain that it's all that they can think of or deal with. There are times when it seems to them that it's the way that they will have to live their lives for the rest of their lives. It's a scary thought and if they don't' have some one to help them deal with it it can seem like the only out that they have is suicide.

Answer 4

Depends on your situation in life, I knew someone who was manically depressed 24/7 and had every treatment (electric shock etc etc) that was on the market but nothing worked. She was in hell, so she took her own life aged 32. In her situation she thought the worst that could happen is that she would be reincarnated to the same Hell. I think she was right. Her family knew of her decades of constant pain and felt a snce of relief for her when her suffering was over that out weighed their sorrow. BUT usually, after Suicide, you hurt someone else more than yourself, by leaving them behind with the pain that goes with that and then I believe that is wrong. If you are going to committ suicide I believe you should never hurt anyone else who loves you and if by doing so you will, then it cant be an option and you just have to struggle on till "the wheels fall off".

Answer 5

Can another way of asking this question be when is suicide permissible or morally right?

I suppose if the person is suffering from a terminal illness with absolutely no hope of recovering, I could understand that person committing suicide.

If the person commits suicide due to mental suffering such as depression, I don't condemn that person as a coward. I only feel bad that person felt so sad and hopeless that he took his own life instead of finding a way to live his life.

Here are the lyrics to Suicide is Painless:

Through early morning fog I see visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me I realize and I can see . . .
That suicide is painless it brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please.

I try to find a way to make all our little joys relate
Without that ever-present hate but now I know that it’s too late,

and . . .That suicide is painless it brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please.

The game of life is hard to play. I’m gonna lose it anyway.

The losing card I’ll someday lay so this is all I have to say.

That suicide is painless it brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please.

The only way to win is cheat and lay it down before I’m beat,

and to another give my seat for that’s the only painless feat.

That suicide is painless it brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please.

The sword of time will pierce our skins it doesn’t hurt when it begins

But as it works its way on in the pain grows stronger . . . watch it grin, but . . .
That suicide is painless it brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please.

A brave man once requested me to answer questions that are key
'Is it to be or not to be' and I replied 'oh why ask me?'
That suicide is painless it brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please.
And you can do the same thing if you choose.

Answer 6

suicide is not a cowards way out, but it is the selfish way out. every person's situation is different but the number of people who commit suicide has risen and i think that it has definitely become an easy way for some to solve their problems..unfortunately.

Answer 7

Absolutley it is-because if you commit suicide you're trying to take yourself out the game of life because you think you cant face it. That makes you a coward.

Answer 8

YES. because if you are brave face the hurdles no matter what.
One day we all have to die and then we will be facing our God. what will we answer him? suicide is a sin in every religion.

One should face the downfall bravely and fight and work till you get it right.

Answer 9

Disagree..just thinning the herd.

Answer 10

It is bravery, can everyone ?