Do you believe that abused people are better off dead?

Question

If so why, if not why? I see the arguement all the time concerning abortion that children of unwanted pregnancies are better off dead than being abused as children (which apparently people think is more likely to happen in the case of unwanted children)

Should we condon teenaged suicide of children in abusive households?

We could even make a suicide counselor in the main office of schools who will advise kids on pain and mess free ways of killing themselves...

Answer 1

Actually I thought about this last night after going to bed.

Should I kill myself now because I was abused as a child and my mother didn't want me?

Should this daft theory from some Feminists extend to those children who may develop leukemia, asthma, diabetes or who may drown in a swimming pool or die in a car accident one day?  Where does a person draw a line and why do Feminists not believe that an abused person can live a happy and productive life?

I worked hard to overcome my past and am determined not to make the same mistake as my parents.  My life has meaning now, I'm contributing to society and am happy.

Why not the abuser die(with hindsight, he or she could have been aborted so they won't abuse an innocent child), but that's like putting the chicken behind the egg, so to say and such a situation makes my mind boggle.

Answer 2

LOL, I think I detect sarcasm in this question....

I don't think abused people are better off dead. I know a woman who was abused for many years, and could have let all the bad things in her life hold her down. She's one of the kindest, loving, and uplifting people I know. If she had decided that she was better off dead than abused, I probably wouldn't be the person I am today.

Answer 3

Why not?  We have a counselor for everything else in schools now a days.  Seems no one can do anything or think anything without seeing a counselor, so I'm all for it.  Put a suicide/abortion/so you were born to drug addicts and you think that you should be able to stab people in class counselor in every school in America!

Answer 4

I was an unwanted child, and I was abused for years and treated as a mistake, so I vote ney to your suicide councelor idea, and I will bring up abortion is as you put it is mother decided to kill her child or another being not decided to kill herself.

Answer 5

People who commit suicide are sissies,try try harder.

Answer 6

Your question is ridiculous

Answer 7

Terribly unhappy people who can't seem to get a handle on their lives kill themselves. I doubt that in most cases except for unbearable pain, that anyone is better off dead. My reason for saying that is that life can surprise you if you wait and watch and learn. What you remove from your tools is time, whenever you choose to stop a life. Time and what can be accomplished in time is often all that is needed. From pain and suffering come understanding, compassion and strength.

No to condoning suicide. That is akin to throwing something away because you didn't read the directions for its use and you don't know how to plug it in and make it work. The potential is ignored in favor of a quick resolution. What is the hurry? No amount of time is too much to spend on repairing a life.

C. :)

Answer 8

people should mind there own business..everyones life is not perfect and what they go through will either break them or make them a stronger person..who life or family is perfect[smiles]

Answer 9

h**l NO!  FIRST OFFI DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHO SHOULD BE DEAD OR ALIVE.  AND SOMEBODY SHOULDEN'T KILL THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEIR MOTHER WHO WANTED TO HAVE AN ABORTIONAND DIDN'T WANT THEM THAT THEY SHOULD KILL THEM SELVES. I MEAN WHY WHAT FOR? YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO LIVE YOUR LIVE NO MATTER WHAT SOMEONE ELS'E DECISION WAS TO TRY TO HAVE A ABORTION WITH YOU, RAPE YOU MOLEST, YOU BEAT, YOU VERBALLY ABUSE YOU, NO MATTER WHAT [{KILLING YOURSELF IS JUST THE EASY WAY OUT!!]} INSTEAD STAYING ALIVE AND STAYING STRONG. LIVING WALKING AROUND WITH A SMILE KNOWING THAT YOU WENT THROUGH ALL THESE THINGS AND THAT YOU ARE STILL STRING!! STILL ALIVE NOT MENTALLY UNSTABLE BECAUSE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO YOU OR NOT IN A WHITE JACKET. bUT STILL SAIN AND ANY ONE WHO EVEN SAYS THIS OR THINKS OF TELLY SOMEONE WHO WAS ABUSED TO KILL THEMSELVES IS JUST IGNORANT AND EVIL. tHIS IS WHAT I THINK ABOUT THIS!!!!!11

Answer 10

It depends.  If you could go back in time would you kill Hitler?  Anyways on to your lame question.  I believe that abortion should be a choice and that not everyone makes it out of certain families alive in the first place; even if they live to a hundred; their not really alive.  I think that sometimes abortion is the kinder choice and no one cares what you believe.  I believe my body my choice.  We shouldn't condone teenage suicide or even adult suicide but we should have soft hearts.  If someone can not take there life and choose to take their life then who are we to believe that they should be forced to live.  Some abused children walk out of the fire and are stronger; some walk out and light fires all around them.  We don't know but parents can choose and that is all that we can hope for the right choose; but its not ours and its none of our business. We should just be happy that choices are out there.  What would be wrong with telling kids how to humanely end it?  I would, if a child is going to kill themselves I would rather have them do it right and as painless as possible. However in our society we prefer everyone punished for their mistakes and circumstances. Most people here don't even know the word empathy; they are truly sick.  Maybe you would change your mind if you had seen what we see.

Answer 11

I fear that any attempt to answer this question will lead to account termination and thus wish to refrain from exercising free thought in this community of oppression and thought control.

Apologies to all.

Answer 12

No, but I believe that abused people are better off with their abusers dead.

Answer 13

Your disconnect between abortion of fetuses and abuse of children is very broad.

Answer 14

im more concerned what a kid will feel growing up in poverty with a father who is either related to his mother or raped her.

Answer 15

no i believe the abuser of the child is better off dead. i know i am going to get a thumbs down for this, but God created everyone, and they have a divine purpose. how can anyone determine whether someone is better off dead? do you realize how evil that is?

Answer 16

no i don't agree