Is suicide a legitimate solution?

It's frowned upon for a reason.

What is it with SD and threads like these.

Obviously the situation will be different for everyone and I am pretty sure my thoughts on this is not shared by all if even most.

But as far as we know, we only have this life and that's it, maybe there are stuff after it which I doubt but who knows, all we do know is we DO have this life and we should treasure it. I also think it goes against any living beings nature to do anything but trying to keep on living and find what they can to enjoy life.

Obviously big flaws in this statement as very very old and sick people may wish to die peacefully, would it be right to deny them this and force them to live painfully for days, weeks, months or even years?

People being captured and tortured endlessly for the rest of their life, would you not consider suicide better then an existence of nothing but pain?

But in the normal circumstances, or at least those I have come to see where I live I think we should all treasure life and do our best to help others treasure their lives as well and to NEVER surrender to absolute moralities such as never allow suicide or always take suicide, to much gray area.

Well, you have to look at it this way, your entire life is a journey and you destination is not what matters. What matters is how you reach your destination. And evidently, our destination is death. So good luck, friend.

although that saying is way overused, it's true.

if you're going to kill yourself, why don't you go out and do stuff you always wanted to do?
Splurge on credit cards. get hookers. STDs? who cares, you're going to kill yourself anyways, might as well enjoy the moment. drugs? so what, nothing is gonna stop you other than maybe the police. go out and do something exciting, because the consequences won't matter once you're dead.

once you see how the world is and what enjoyment you can get out of it, maybe you won't want to kill yourself anymore.

Suicide isn't a solution, its an escape. You never solved a math problem by crossing it out.

So let's say we are in war , our army is getting flanked by the ennemy , retreating isn't a solution too i supose since it's an escape and we never solved a math problem by crossing it out ?

Your argument is illogical , try thinking with your head and not your heart next time .


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Do you know what depression do ? You're not depressive because of sad situations , beign depressive make things sad . If you're abouth to suicide then you won't enjoy what the world has to offer , even if it's winning a million dollard , doign what you ever dreamt of or whatever .

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What's up with this thread ?

I think it's a pretty good subject of discussion , i am for suicide , and i think it is frowned upon , like you say ,for a reason , but not a good one . It's not because the majority of people have the same opinion abouth a subject that they are right .

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What comes after life has nothing to do with the subject , keep your believes for yourself .



Kids ? It is true that suicide is the second cause of death in people between 15 and 24 where i live but that doesn't mean that suicide is a kid thing , it represents only 24% of all suicides .

Depending on the reason I guess. I mean, there are certain circumstances where suicide is frowned upon (after a break up or something similar) or suicide may seem heroic (sacrificing yourself to save your friends in the middle of a civil war or something), but it all comes back to WHY.

I see a lot of absolute opinions and statements here.

consider this: you are diagnosed with a terminal wasting disease. something that will make you suffer great pain, loss of motor control, bodily functions, etc. you will suffer and be dependant on other people to do everything for you. everything. suicide is clearly not the answer. it's much better to endure the pain and humiliation. to force someone else, who probably cares a great deal for you, to watch this happen to you.

i've heard people say suicide is selfish. but what is really selfish is forcing someone to suffer because you are too afraid to let go.

maybe try looking at things from a perspective other than your own before telling someone else what is right or wrong.

First of all, no way a suicide is good (This is just my opinion). I mean, I'm always have a bad time of live because sickness. Cancer, tumor, and on... I mean, I'm desperate to live here! DX I can't just "Oh I see" when I heard someone is committing suicide. But, put that aside, my brother is almost committing suicide right before my eyes.

If what your wandering about is why they afraid committing suicide even though they're already planning to, I think I can give you the answer. From what my brother said to me, he said it easier to die than to live when he just live to suffer, but then he remembered a lot of things when he ready to do it. Like, how his family will be sad, or maybe there something he can do before he die. Then, he remembered all the one who is nice to him and help him to this point. He started to think, there are actually a lot of valuable memories that happened in his life.

That was his case, but I think, not everyone who commit suicide feel this or maybe they remembered it too late when they already hanging (or something...). Yeah, that's maybe the reason why. Still, I think it's not good to commit suicide and all...

If you're only interested in ending your own personal issues and have no regard for the impact of your actions on others, then suicide is an acceptable solution.

But if you care about hurting other than you should never even attempt.

So you should suffer for others because of their own unability to accept death ?

For a significant amount of time in my life(years), I've felt largely empty, hollow and wan(still continuing to present). Chronic depression and major depression disorder have affected my everyday life and I am constantly thinking is life worth living and if not, is suicide a legitimate way out of suffering. For me, suicide is both right and wrong in a sense that is welcoming and yet rejected, in a hope that one day I will find, realize or discover something that can have a crowning meaning in my life. Disturbed as I am I still have a few things that boredom or torment have not completely taken away from me, and this is reading philosophy and writing poetry. Through these two subjects I've experienced passion and meaning in my agonizing life, these are the only things I cling to dearly, in wait til' I find my own perpetual reason to live. Right now suicide is not a legitimate solution in the single possibility that it may find something or someone to ease my abysmal despair...

Should? I'm not sure. But I'd rather.

If others ever end up grieving over my suicide, then that'd be the ultimate irony, because they'd be the cause. Almost makes me go mad with laughter thinking about it.

I think it depends on the circumstance and your thoughts and world-views on what may or may not come after that decision. You have to find one thing to live for and hold on to that.

Our situations must be starkly different NeoStriker. I have 3-4 people I really couldn't stand hurting myself.

Suicide is a permanent solution to an temporary problem.

I think a lot of people view suicide in the prospect that it's just a bunch of stupid teen's with small problems. If were literately talking a kid is just going through some ruff stuff who is thinking of suicide, i think it's stupid; but he still has the right to end it if he wants.

But there are a lot of people with worst problems that really can't get out of it, and they diffidently have the right to take their own life.

I don't even get where this idea that your own life isn't yours to take. It's like the government really owns you or something and is just letting you live because it benefits them.

I could ramble on about how suicide is pointless but I guess I can make my argument with this piece of logic:

If you believe in any kind of god and religion, suicide is very likely to get you sent to Hell, suicide bombers aside. If you don't believe in any of that, suicide is just the end, game over; what does that solve? In that case, you have solved nothing, you have just escaped. If Hell does exist and you get sent there, you have just created a new problem.

I don't even think religious belief of probability of the existence of an afterlife matters to my argument. Even if Heaven exists and you manage to go there, you are just running away. It doesn't solve the problem you had in the first place. To call suicide a legitimate solution is like calling soy legitimate bacon.

Living is the problem , you stop living , how is that not solving anything ?




From most of what i've read/heard there is 3 reactions from suicidal people abouth god :

1 : I don't believe there is a god anymore .
2 : God is cruel , if he exists , i don't want to be by his side anyway.
3 : I don't care if i'm goign to hell , i'm already there .

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All the arguements you made are stupid , you say things like you were a genius and no one thought of that before ... People normaly don't just suicide on the spot you know , it's a long process of thoughts , and everything you said in your arguements , they already thought of it 100 times .