Is suicide selfish?

Question

Serious question, guys!!!

Ok, I had a really good friend kill himself a couple years ago, and I've been borderline suicidal for most of my life (not because of that). I know a lot of people think committing suicide is selfish, but looking from that person's point of view, do you really agree? I'd never actually commit suicide because I know how much it would hurt my friends, but do you think it's kind of selfish of that person's friends and family to make them continue living a life of suffering? And I'm not talking about someone who had one bad thing happen to them and decided the easiest way to deal with it would be suicide or someone who's only doing it for attention.

I'm honestly curious about what other people think about this, so I don't want any funny responses or people telling me not to kill myself. I'm not, so don't.

Thank you!

Just so everyone knows, I don't consider my friend's decision selfish in the slightest. I know how bad his life was, and if I was in his position, I highly doubt I would even have lasted as long as he did.

By the way, I'm Atheist, so please don't give me religious answers.

Answer 1

Honestly, I've had suicidal feelings myself, but I was always afraid of death and I could never put my loved ones through that kind of pain for the rest of their lives. And I always would tell myself, what if something good is going to happen to me tomorrow and I'm going to miss it because of this one moment. Suicide is selfish to me, to put everyone that cares about you and that you care about into that kind of pain and misery for as long as they live. It's not fair for those people.

Answer 2

There are definitely two ways to look at this. Is the selfishness worse to make a person continue a life of suffering or is it worse to CREATE a life of suffering for those you leave behind? Personally, I think suicide is not a viable way out of life for most people who are suffering because I believe things will get better for them if they wait it out. Life goes in cycles. There are very few people who reach a nadir that has no way up, people that are in excruciating pain in the last stage of an incurable disease for instance. Therefor I think it is selfish to hurt the ones you love, even though I truly do understand that it is so hard to keep this in mind when you are truly suffering emotionally and mentally.

Answer 3

There are so many biblical passages to this. I've had a friend do the same thing a couple of years ago,and to this day I think he's selfish. But there are so many alternatives to committing suicide; councelling, moving, etc. My friend has been suicidal too, (I don't know why). But what are her friends and family going to do? Say, "We don't want to see you miserable", and hook her up to an iv and kill her? No...There's just so many demensions and physcology going on when a person commits suicide...It's hard to explain, and with every point a person brings up, it can be argued...soo...in short, no, it's not all selfish, but there is selfishness involved

Answer 4

Suicide is the choice of last resort. Everything beyond the brick wall you are staring at is not an option. Before anyone commits suicide they should seek a counselor and find out what other options are open. Don't be afraid to open the door and take a peek, you might be surprised what you see. I have a scar on my wrist. Everytime I think I am in a hopeless situation I look at it and remember all the other hopeless situations I got out of. Telling someone that is selfish, and not to do it gives no solutions. Find someone who can explain the options.

Answer 5

i'm easily doing a paper in this and believe Susan. by making use of definition, definite, suicide is selfish, yet so is the wanting of somebody suicidal to stay on the grounds which you like them too. no longer them. they're burnt out and that they desire to die. the two facets are excessively pondering themselves relatively than the different social gathering ensuing in a paradox of selfishness and exhibiting how no person in this international is easily selfish no remember how 'worrying' they attempt to come back off by making use of saving somebody off a ledge and telling them they have greater to stay for. Do you think of they hadn't seen that? Hadn't concept approximately what greater the international had to offer them? interior the US, ninety p.c. of people who commit suicide be afflicted by psychological themes that cripple the logical concept technique, that may synthesise tips incorrectly into logical fallacies telling them they're burden and not good sufficient. oftentimes, somebody who's suicidal has seen each and every person it relatively is going to effect and has got here to the top that they are going to be forgotten, the international will flow on, and/or that those people will purely be greater appropriate off without them.

Answer 6

From what I have experienced in my life there are 2 kinds of suicide victims. One is desperate for relief, the other is desperate for revenge. The first one I pity as they don't realize they aren't alone and have options. The second group seem to be chronically selfish and to cowardly to live without being the centre of their universe. There is a third type that follows a native American tradition and isn't so much suicide as accepting a timely death from your world but those are few and far between as well as often unrecognized for what they are.

Answer 7

Yes in my opinon i say it is....... I have had 2 friends and a family member commit suicide. when someone you love kills themself. It makes the people they love feel responisble, and maybe even suicidal themselves. when people commit sucide to end their own misery its causes so much more.......... I am not an atheist i do not know what i belive. i belive anything is possible and i dont try to limit myself to one way of thinking.... It is quite possible that what happens after you commit suicide is 10 x worse than the act itself! why take a chance?

Answer 8

Yes. Not only selfish for what it would do to their friends and family, but cowardly. Almost everyone has had failures, disappointments, heartaches, and bad experiences in their life. The only difference between them and someone who commits suicide is they had the guts to go on with their life and try to rise out of the despair. Your life is what you make of it.

Answer 9

The only people who will tell you that suicide is selfish, are the ones who have had people wiping their a** for them, their entire life. They have no idea what it means to hurt and struggle.

Answer 10

Yes because you want to end your life because you're miserable. You don't care about the pain that you're death will bring other people. You should know how much it hurts because of your friend.