2007-11-26 09:38:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
interesting answers all keep them coming
2007-11-26 11:05:10 · update #1
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2007-11-26 10:45:59 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the situation. There's a difference between being depressed and committing suicide and choosing to skip the slow agonizing death brought on by cancer. Assuming you're talking about the former, though, suicide is sort of a cop out: as long as there's something - anything - you can do to fix your life, you ought to keep at it. You get to be dead for the rest of eternity. You might as well live now while you've got the chance.
2007-11-26 11:53:12 · answer #2 · answered by Stefan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rules and attitudes about suicide are culturally determined. Japanese students who fail the collegiate entrance exams commit suicide. We think this is ludicrous, but the Japanese don't. Romans were expected to commit suicide if they suffered a bad loss of honor - to do so was noble, not a cop out.
Motivations for suicide vary from despair to frenzy (think of the guy who kills his family and then kills himself). We have to look at each case individually. Who am I to tell someone suffering from spinal cancer (this is a truly horrible way to die) that she can't end it now when she still has some of her dignity left? People who have been happily married for fifty years completely lose it when their spouse dies, and how can you blame them? Wise people don't think in black and white terms.
2007-11-26 10:45:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a tortured person wanting nothing but to escape a tortured existance. It is the complete dissemination of a spirit. It is hurting everyone that loves you to no end, and lastly it is a cop out by someone who did not know what else to do.
2007-11-26 15:15:04 · answer #4 · answered by Space Chicken 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the estimation of some, it is merely a desperate act intended to harm those who have not fulfilled our own expectations. And this is what makes it so sad, that one could be so fixated on what lacks in oneself and in others, that they miss the opportunity to truly discover the sheer wonder of existence.
2007-11-26 10:45:55 · answer #5 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
living can be a cop out too. i'd like to tell you what i think... i've lived in that area, but too many people think they know......
2007-11-26 10:26:25 · answer #6 · answered by deva 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know,don't care . don't wish to go that far into uncharted waters.#1 don't have the balls to.it's a one way ticket,with destination,,, unknown ? selfish thing to do.
D.
2007-11-26 11:42:30 · answer #7 · answered by dorian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It only suceeds in hurting others
2007-11-26 10:45:46 · answer #8 · answered by Me again 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is.
2007-11-26 10:20:37 · answer #9 · answered by Candi Apples 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋