Why is suicide considered wrong?

Question

Considering that there are 6.7 billion people on the planet, we can't exactly come and say that the human species is threatened of extinction. The total population increase by approximately 3 per second.

As the number grows, so does the amount of pollution. The higher the amount of pollution, the closer we get to a global catastrophe, which would affect all of the humans.

Why is suicide considered wrong, when suicide would not only being an advantage to the future of the human species, but also an advantage for the survival of nature?

I know that some have trouble touching this issue, but it needs to be adressed and discussed sooner or later.

Answer 1

At this point I can only answer what I've always been taught that suicide is taking a life and that is a sin.
But I'm going to think about it because you make a very good argument.

Answer 2

Suicide is considered 'wrong' because it's irresponsible to the people who love / depend on the suicidal.

However, it's only 'wrong' because society says it's so -- people can't really just set the boundaries for morality on any meaningful level beyond 'we think it's good / bad in this society'.

A lot of times, suicide is justified and probably a logical decision, but at other times, it's poorly thought out and conducted by people who aren't mentally or emotionally stable. A lot of attempted suicides end up in the person undergoing emotional care and emerging healthier and happier for it.

So we can say suicide is 'wrong' from a societal standpoint, but just like any other moral issue, we can't declare a universal right or wrong for this. It's just one of those things that people are capable of doing that might not sit well with their fellow humans.

Answer 3

It vastly reduces your options.

If someone has no real chance of ever having an enjoyable life, then perhaps suicide is a good thing. This might be the case of someone with a painful incurable affliction that is just living life waiting for death to come. In that case, suicide might be a mercy.

However, many people take their own life because of temporary setbacks. That is unfortunate. Personally, I think that life has much to offer and suicide really just wastes it. It also might be a selfish act, if your death adversely affects others around you.

But suicide is ultimately a personal choice. I may have opinions about whether a person's suicide is right or wrong, but that's just opinion.

As for the population explosion, I think it would be more fruitful to address frivolous births than deaths. Whether someone suicides or not isn't going to really affect the population, unless masses of people suicide before having kids. It's really the unwanted pregnancies forced to term or the outdated idea that large families are good that will doom us to a population explosion.

Answer 4

Because "most" people believe in helping someone that is having a rough go at life, usually because they have been there and they can relate with a lot of issues. It seems as though a lot of times a person just needs a impartial friend to talk to and everything gets better. Do you honestly believe it is right to tell a person to "go ahead and jump", or "go ahead pull the trigger life isn't worth that much grief anyways"? If that's how you feel I feel sorry for you, especially when your going to have to depend on friends at some point in time. The answer to the question is of course it's not right. I hope most people don't see it fit to give up on others and promote suicide. GOD BLESS!!

Answer 5

There are better ways to fix the population issue, and thus better ways a human life could be spent than in the bath with Mr. Razor.

It's true, we need to reduce the population somehow - or at least stop it growing (yes, there's a difference if anyone didn't know).

Obviously there are differing opinions on the issue, but I would personally consider suicide to be wrong because it's a cop-out. I see a world like ours and I think "hey, let's fix it", not "well this sucks, i'm out of here, see you guys in the afterlife".


also I recognise that i'm at significant risk of getting flamed here... oh well :)

Answer 6

This issue has been discussed for eons, where have you been?

"Life", by most social standards is considered valuable.

By most religious standards it is considered sacred, a gift.

In regards to my studies with NDE's, or the "Near Death Expereinces" of many thousands, I have concluded that those whom attempted suicide found themselves in a place very void of anything. The attestements were regular and consistent across the board in most respects.

In each case, as an "attemept" they were direectly contacted by an entity most described and interpreted as "God himself" or in many Western cases "Jesus". In short the converstaions between the attempted suicide subject and "Jesus" went something like:" is this what you really want"? Do you know life is sacred and yours alone"? Do you know that your participation in life is much more important than you think? Many were shown their families futures absent them and how it "could go"; it showed children without moms, dads and so on and all the possibilities and all within a mili-second.

These attestements are factual, dismiss them as crap of you must or purhaps grow a pair and Investigate yourself.

Check the "Near death experiences" websites and tell us all what you think, but, do read at least 25 accounts and You be the Judge and tell us all your opinions.

Answer 7

Suicide and assisted suicide r considered wrong b/c our government thinks they r entitled to rule on every aspect of our personal lives. But on the other hand, suicide hurts EVERYONE around u. It leaves the ones who love u with numerous questions that can never b answered. I understand y people do it, but I could never do that to my family. Assisted suicide should b an issue between a doctor and their patient. I don't think anyone should b told that they can't choose how they die.

Answer 8

I don't know that suicide is "wrong" so much as it is sad. A person who takes his own life must suffer from either physical or mental/emotional pain so much that he sees no other way out.

I don't think people should be encouraged to take their own lives just to reduce world population. There's birth control for that. But, I completely understand how a person with a terminal disease which is also very painful, cancer, or completely debilitating, Lou Gherig's disease for instance, would want to just "get it over with". I could understand and forgive.

Answer 9

I know that some have trouble touching this issue.

What trouble? A sick mortal thought must be destroyed by truth. Suicide is a belief that has strayed to dark places, and unless it is fairly met and overcome in this age, it will pass on with one until finally the temptation to believe in other gods is thoroughly destroyed, but the sinful belief will last until you turn your thought against it. In the end, suicide is just another ugly form of sin.

Answer 10

Suicide represent a permanent solution to temporary problems. It is the waist of potential that even non-religious people find so deplorable. Keep in mind though that this is a typically western philosophy. In far east cultures, suicide was seen as an honorable alternative to execution.