Do you think suicide is ever justified? ?

Question

Do you think suicide is ever justified? ?

Answer 1

Maybe in a case in which, like others have said, a terminally ill person is really suffering, when you face a certain death worse than one you could provide for yourself, and I also think that people like ted bundy and john wayne gacey and jeffrey dhamer could have made the decision to kill themselves before hurting others.

Answer 2

There is only one instance where maybe, MAYBE, suicide "might be" justifiable. In an extreme instance, for example, if you are protecting someone from certain death, like in n**i Germany, and you are caught, you would be facing torture. If you are certain that you may betray those who are under your protection due to extreme torture, then and ONLY then, is suicide justifiable. In order to protect someone else, in order to not betray someone, MAYBE suicide would be OK. But I would proceed with extreme caution. Suicide should NOT be entered into with a casual attitude. It is NOT the first thing one should think of to get out from a school test, to get away from an abuser, because "life sucks" no,no,no. Life is precious.  Don't  just throw it away on a whim.

Answer 3

Suicide is not justified at all. The person who wants or commits suicide may think that it gets rid of problems or everything will be ok, but truthfully it causes more pain to go through or have a love one go through it with you. It's not cool at all. I have almost lost my mother three times because of it and it each time it got worst and more ugly like a horror film. That is such depressing matter if you have gone through it with some one you love.

Answer 4

Yes, in cases of what I guess I'll call Justified Despair. Suicidal urges can pass when circumstances improve. But when there really is no light at the end of the tunnel, and a human being is locked in her own h**l for life, suicide is the only way out. There are so many ways for life to become unbearable.

For example, psychoses such as schizophrenia, where there is no cure and treatment does not work or creates new debilities that prevent the victim from supporting and caring for himself. Side effects from anti-psychotics can be wicked, but untreated schizophrenics pose a danger to themselves and others. Unrelenting clinical depression that hasn't responded to years of various treatments, with the patient constantly at or near the suicide stage. Any wasting illness without a cure or treatment that gives symptomatic relief, especially a terror like Alzheimer's, where the sufferer knows he will be a burden on his family sooner or later and can feel his mind slipping away; dementia, for the same reason; Lou Gehrig's Disease, where the body dwindles; terminal cancer.  Persons who live each day and night in excruciating pain, especially if the pain is not medically likely to end in their lifetime and isn't adequately suppressed by medication. These pain patients can be bedbound men and women who are sane but trapped in bodies someone else has to care for (need assistance to commit suicide). Surviving while osteoporosis turns your bones to chalk, for instance, can be horrifically painful and 100% debilitating, and it takes its time killing by complications. Quadriplegics (more assisted suicide). People spending lives in prison without appeal. The addicted who have lost everything.

When hopelessness grinds a human being down to the point where he longs to die just to stop the pain, and can't consider the feelings of those who love her because she is beyond feeling anything but guilt and pain and despair, and truly has no reason to hope for better, how can I say she shouldn't kill herself? What I believe, spiritually, doesn't matter. Her suffering does.  

Answer 5

yes , its like pro choice its your life do what you want with it  nobody lives forever !

Answer 6

It should be punishable by death.

Answer 7

Suicide is  not justified when it is a permanent solution to a problem that might possibly be temporary or solved by waiting, getting help or the passage of time.

On the other hand, if you are terminally ill with a disease such as ALS and do not want to live, I say it is justified.  

Answer 8

Should a cow kill itself for having milk to give?

Answer 9

It's a bit like 'beauty', the answer lies in the eye of the beholder ...or in the mind of the one who does the act.

It is a subjective answer.

Sash.

Answer 10

No I do not.Think of what it does to your family members.My sister committed suicide,we just buried her yesterday.There is people out there willing to help.Also,you can try God.

Answer 11

Yes.  Under some circumstances, for example if you are about to be captured by an evil and implacable enemy while in possession of information that could jeopardize the lives of others.   Another good example is if you have a terminal illness and you are experiencing considerable unmanageable pain. I see no reason why someone should not cut short an agonizing death or illness by choice.

On the other hand it is tragic when people kill themselves under less dire circumstances.  It harms those who love you, inevitably, and it is often done under the evil delusions that depressed people are often possessed of.  While regrettable I don't think such acts are necessarily sins, any more than someone who suffers from schizophrenia or other severe mental disease is responsible for his or her actions.

Answer 12

yes i do, in many cases, like when hope its no longer available or posible