Suicide & Euthanasia

Suicide is BAD.

Anyone against my opinion?

Well it looks like Suicide Booths will become real popular soon...lol

Seriously though not only do people who have nothing to live for commit this act also people who have something to live for does this act.

Well, I myself thought of it, but no matter how bad life can be, once you're dead, that's it. That's the end of it. If you know your life will only be sad there on out, why don't you live and be sad, to experience that? Life is just an experience, after all.

Suicide isn't always a bad thing in my opinion. The people that follow through with it, I view to be courageous. It takes a lot of courage [or insanity] to take your own life by choice. Speaking from personal experience, it's scary to every TRY to kill yourself. You begin realizing that once you're dead, it's all over. Everything. Some people decide to take the plunge, and some people rethink their decision. And reasons as to why someone commits suicide range from minor [almost trivial reasons] to major [really serious reasons], so it's difficult to say that every suicide was for nothing, b/c in the end things [may not] change and work themselves out. People that frown upon those who kill themselves should be ashamed. By looking down upon these people, it's the same as disrespecting the dead. [Which in my opinion is worse than murder. The departed should be treated with more respect than the living. They deserve it much more]

I can't really see myself commiting suicide, but I believe that if the person has put a lot of thought into the matter, understanding what there are doing and such concequences, then they can if they wish to do so.

I don't get how people say that suicide is a weakness or a cowards way out. I mean, if anyone here is active, then having that ability stripped from you, wouldn't you find it hard to live? Seriously, if I was made to live the rest of my life unable to leave my bed from some incident, then I'd rather want death, cu all I would be doing is staring at the damn cealing all day.

It's easy for us to preach that those who commit suicide are weak, are people who couldn't handle a little curve ball life threw at them. I doubt any of us had everything we had stripped from us, or very lives turned upside down, all the people you once knew suddenly turn their backs on you. How could any of us cope when our houses have been taken, all alone to survive in the allies of the cities, one of the harshest enviroments on the planet?

It's one thing to say that one person's preference to deal with problems are different, but what of the actual problems? The problems that scare a person for life, things what make you scream at night, the things that makes you wish you died and all the voices end?

We can sit up here on our high horses, and be completely arrogent of the problems of those down below, or we can see the horrors that only our societies can bring forth and make a grown man weep.

When faced with an utter dead end, nowhere to go and in pain, death really is the only way out. Live and suffer for for the rest of your life, or die?

It's also funny how people say that suicide is selfish, yet isn't it more selfich to ask of the person to deal with the pain, bury the suffering just so the others don't have to feel the change in their daily routine? That person has those thoughts running in their heads for every minute of every day, yet we simply ignore it, and say things are all better, yet we're the ones who don't have to deal with the fucked up mind.

Now, I find it stupid that teenagers want to commit suicide because of some high school drama. It's why I said that people should do this ONLY after having thought about this long and hard, and understand that there is no going back, sho

Not only that they are retarted for even thinking of doing it. damm emos.

Suicide just means taking ones own life.

The reasons for it are theirs and theirs alone.

Though I am completely against suicide, I cannot stop a person from committing one if I am not there.

There are millions who have suicidal thoughts because they never even been given the chance to experience something special in their life.

One person ending their life is indeed over for them, but they have to ask themselves, where will they end up?

Many people believed when they commit suicide they believe they will end up in a place somewhere free from all negative things that impacted them in life. They think they will end up in paradise or something, well I got something to tell ya, DON'T COMMIT SUICIDE JUST BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A PLACE BETTER IN THE AFTERLIFE!!!

(Bows down and leaves)

I understand why people take their lives but for me to miss the next day. (even if it was work)
To miss all the excitement from random thing happening frequently.
To miss the opportunity that the Axe commercial becomes reality. (i'm talking about the one with falling angels)
That's what's keeping me going for all these years.

Here are my views on suicide. Please note that I try to take a middle ground stance on these things, and that if you disagree with me, I don't honestly care.

So, okay, first off? Suicide is a bad idea in almost any given situation. Unless you do it heroically, like to keep enemy soldiers from tormenting you into giving away precious intel, then it's absolutely pointless. Given my personal beliefs (Atheist, but philosophically open to Agnosticism), I do not think that killing yourself with land you in hell. I do, however, believe that it will be the end of everything you do, that doing so is unjustifiable in that you give up any opportunity to make things better. As someone who believes that life is at once both sacred and one of the only things anyone has a "divine right" to, I think that suicide is pointless and stupid. I mean, to cease your own biological functions is not only flipping off millions of years of evolution (Basically it's saying, "Congratulations, you made me advanced enough to choose not to live."), but it's selfish in that it generally causes a lot of distress for others. People close to the suicide victim (What an ironic term, by the way) often feel as if they should have "seen the signs", and that they should have done something. I've contemplated suicide myself, so I can honestly say that no one considers offing themselves without being in a serious amount of emotional pain, usually the kind that others can't help with.
HOWEVER.
I do believe that free will is a basic human right. If someone chooses to end their life, then it's their right. That's not to say that absolutely everything possible should be done to try and save them, but if they are truly hell-bent on suicide, then it's their right to do away with themselves if they so choose.

I got something to add about taking your own life. I came close to doing the same thing 3 times myself.
I felt so empty and lonely that time stopped and there was no forms of life around me. Like I opened a black hole of death begging me to join it forever. I thought about others going on without me in a better way and not killing myself for my own reasons. I stabbed , burned . jumped in front of cars -- hoping that simple action would do it in a quick manner. It didnt happen like on television where its all censored with no blood. I lived as the world just stopped around me. Its a strange feeling.

Suicide is a hard thing for people to talk about, especially if you want them to talk about /why/ they want to. It's intensely personal and beyond terrifying it's generally seen as that person's last hope. Or it's the only thing they can control. I've gone through a lot in my life, and I have of course wanted to commit suicide. Though I haven't yet, it's only because of a few things.

1. When my mom attempted suicide and failed, taking care of her was horrible. I wouldn't want to fail.

2. If I do fail I could end up living with brain damage, and I'd rather be miserable and whole then dumb and happy.

and honestly my last reason is simply that I know how much it would fuck up my family's life and I don't want to do that to them. Suicide, for me, isn't about getting out at any cost. I just want to /stop/ fucking everything up. Disappear so they have less to deal with.

I dunno, that's my view.

I personally wanted to commit suicide for around 2 years (it ended recently). Every time I saw a knife, a ledge, or just anything I just wanted to go up to it and do it. It felt like the best thing to do because I couldn't deal with the world. I hated every bit of myself. I made good grades and played 3 sports for my highschool. But I just wasn't happy. I didn't see the point of living. What kept me from doing it was that I didn't want to make my family and girlfriend go through that. About a month ago I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and have gotten on medicine. I feel so much better now. It was definitely worth not committing suicide. Living through those two years of constant pain and self hatred.

So take it from someone who has been through that. Live through it. Work as hard as you can to get through it. Seek medical help, you may have a medical condition like I did.

I treasure life too much to leave it. IMO, self sacrificing heroism is stupid. Why? Because once you die, everything ends. Every idea you have, everything you've ever done. If your dead it doesn't matter to you if everyone for the rest of history remembers that you saved the world. When you die, the world ends.

That is why I oppose suicides. Even if you are living in hell every day, you're still alive and you still exist. When you are dead, you'll just be meat no matter if you're Steve Jobs or that hobo down the street. If there is no meaning or hope in your life, try your best to find it. Think "perhaps if I can get through this, maybe things will get better."