2007-11-28 03:48:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There's certainly a loss. If someone is willing to commit suicide, they are willing to put an end to a large number of things in their life. I think most of them consider doing so because they feel trapped.
But in most cases, oughtn't there to be a less extreme means of doing away with whatever is trapping them, while leaving open the possibility of a new life?
There's a story going around that interviews were conducted with all the people who had jumped off a bridge (possibly the Golden Gate?) intending to kill themselves but survived. They all said that immediately after having jumped, they realized that everything that was wrong with their lives could be fixed ... except the fact that they had just jumped off the bridge.
I suspect most people realize that there are less drastic means of fixing their problems. After all, if one is willing to give up everything, why not just give up the things that are hurting? This may be the main reason that depression is so closely linked with suicide: it's an emotional state in which one has the illusion that such a change is impossible. The important thing is to realize that's an illusion.
2007-11-28 05:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by Samwise 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello:
Well, if there is not an Almighty Being nor an afterlife...Then this little window of existence is all there is.
So the punishment is kinda self inflicted and is that you never get to experience anything again.
Thats pretty stiff if you're asking me.
I hope this helps
Rev Phil
2007-11-28 18:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by Rev Phil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming no supernatural consequences exist of any kind, then suicide itself would the punishment, although it would not be one which you could notice, seeing as how you're dead.
The abscence of life and the possibilities it brings is the only punishment, and if you'd rather kill yourself than live... maybe its not such a punishment.
Of course, I'm an optimist, and I'd suggest that you don't kill yourself.
2007-11-28 12:21:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. If there is no God, or no heaven, then who would be doing the punishing? You may leave behind people who would be devastated and perhaps angry that you did it, but that's not punishment. Once you are dead, you can't be punished.
2007-11-28 18:34:48 · answer #4 · answered by SNPUC2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very disturbing question...don't get any ideas, okay? Suicide IS the punishment, and the one committing it isn't the only one who suffers it.
2007-11-28 11:54:21 · answer #5 · answered by LolaCorolla 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is no afterlife, then THIS life is all you have. It may not be much, but someone who commits suicide loses even that little bit. What worse punishment could there be than that?
2007-11-28 12:02:52 · answer #6 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sure is the removal of all the chooses you could have by staying alive. You punish yourself with the ultimate punishment.
2007-11-28 14:39:41 · answer #7 · answered by SiFu frank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is the punishment.No love,no hate,no fun, no bordem,no laughing or crying,no friends or enemies,no thinking,no dreams.No possiblities.No chances.No sleeping in,no gettin it done.No ups or downs .No knowing ,no wondering,no hope,no fear,no rainy days,none clear.None of this or that or anything at all.Nothing is the punishment,what could be worst?
2007-11-28 13:11:20 · answer #8 · answered by max48750 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have left open the possibility of reincarnation, with the implication that one would start a new existence in the mental turmoil that lead to the suicide.
2007-11-28 12:03:51 · answer #9 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe not for the person who has killed themselves, but look at the pain that person's death has caused and look what it has done to that person's friends and family.so the real punishment is heaped on the people Left behind whom lost that loved one.
2007-11-28 13:15:29 · answer #10 · answered by wolf 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋