Life is sacred. Right? Since the dawn of religion, taking a life has been against the rules. And since life is sacred, it’s also been wrong to take your own as well. Punishable by eternal damnation in some religions. But in modern times, with the horror that some diseases cause, the question of being able to control when you pass has become much more prevalent. Life is sacred, but it’s also our own.
When our pets are too sick to make better (or the treatment is too expensive) we euthanize them. We put them out of their misery to compassionately end their suffering. But in many places around the world, this kind of care and understanding is illegal for people. But why? The answer, “because you go to hell,” doesn’t really hold water in a global community that has a variety of faiths and beliefs.
So are you allowed to take your own life? Is it ethical or is anyone that wants to kill themselves unstable? Should there be a minimum requirement of mental stability in order to prove that you’re not crazy or just depressed? Or should anyone be allowed to do whatever they want with their own life?
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Of course not .. Well done, good subject
Life must go and every person must face his destiny ..
And make sure that God will not test anyone over his ability
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As a Godly person I would say it's a big mistake to take your own life, but, as a human, I might say that taking your own life can be a sign of braveness. I don't know it's quite confusing. BTW how can I join your group?
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@writebackwards sir nice it is , but in my opinion religion guide about any thing you do very well ,some time it is a bit strict but it is for make better day for us..
This is a tough question to meditate on. Those same religions...well, many of them...believe we have free will to make our own decisions. And in some cultures it is celebrated when someone kills themselves in the name of some deity. This is going to take some thought.
Euthanasia is really controversial. I've felt pain before, genuine pain that made me feel death will be better for me. if it had persisted I don't know what I'd have done. But I also feel human life is sacred, so taking it may be an abuse and a sin to God. So yeah, for me, it's very confusing
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This insight is astounding. Thank you.
I don't like the word 'religion'. Do you believe ?? Do you have faith? Not everything is 'you will go to hell' the way you put it. There is a different meaning to everything different from the way the world sees it.
Errm, your post explores only a single faucet, with health it's always different and rules can be bend. What about cases of depression, loss of purpose etc, what would be your viewpoint?
Should people be allowed to kill themselves? Sure, but they should hardly be encouraged. In fact, if there's nothing seriously wrong with them, then they probably should be discouraged as much as possible. Someone with mental health issues probably shouldn't be allowed to, but it's the old catch 22 situation, isn't it? No-one in their right mind would want to kill themselves, surely? Of course, sane terminally ill people may beg to differ, here.
I say the above having once worked on suicide prevention in a British prison. The bottom line really has to be if someone doesn't want to be alive - for whatever reason, we should hardly try forcing them to. It's just unethical otherwise. Then, there's overpopulation. The planet has more than enough humans trying to wreck it as it is. If someone doesn't mind offering a little planetary relief in this way, then how can that not be a pretty good thing? If we try to remain objective.
So, it's a tough subject.
Last but not least, it's not the time / place for anyone believing in fairy tales (ie - religious nonsense) to be offering opinions. You live, you die, that's almost certainly it. No-one sits around wondering what happened to the light when a light switch is flicked, do they? And the nonsense that is 'hell' is best considered to simply be a metaphor for what people outliving a person thought of him. Eg. Hitler was a shit. I've outlived Hitler. I think terribly of the man (as do so many others). Therefore, he can be said to be in hell.
People considering suicide have enough on their plate. Religious nutters shouldn't be trying to make them feel even worse by foisting a guilt trip on them, should they? But then religion is one of the very worst things about humanity, is it not?
Edit: And life is hardly sacred. Nothing is if we're honest. It's just a complex catalogue of chemical reactions that we've been lucky to experience. Fleeting in its existence. Ultimately, without meaning.
Killing oneself seems not right. It looks like a cowardly act when life gets tough. Of course there's always an exemption to the rule. It totally depends on the person I think and what's his purpose.
For me this is a no brainer. Yes, people should be entitled to commit suicide if they wish. I can think of no more basic right than the right to take your own life. If our lives are our own and not the property of a state or religion then surely we should be able to decide if we wish to end them or not.
Various religions claim our lives in the names of their God's - either to sacrifice in battle etc or to try to deny us the right to end our lives. Personally I'm of the opinion that any deity who wishes to "enslave" their followers, by removing their right to their own life, isn't a deity I'd be choosing to worship.
It may be a selfish act (leaving loved ones, hurting those you leave behind etc), it may be a sensible act (for someone facing a prolonged, painful death), it may even be a noble act (does killing yourself to save the life of others/another still count as suicide?)
Right? Wrong? Good? Bad? Who are we to judge each other on a choice whose consequences are so personnel to the person making the decision to kill themselves.
It is a complex matter ethically speaking, but I think that it is your own body, so your own rules must be applied and if you want to kill yourself... On the other hand I consider it as an absolutely selfish and cowardly behaviour towards your family and friends. There has to be another better way to solve problems than commiting suicide, although sometimes may seems that life makes no sense, I'm pretty sure that life always makes sense.
yeah. you are right!
This is such a sad and morbid issue in our society. I have attempted suicide in the past. I was dealing with depression and suffered severely. I had no one to talk to and felt like I had nowhere to go.
The only thing that kept me going and stopped me was the thought of what I would put my mother and my children thru.
It’s not fair . I could have ended my suffering and gone into the unknown ( which on some days feels like a relief. It can’t get worse) , but what would happen to those around me . Now that I have children , I think if I were to do it, what would happen to them? Who would care for them? How would they get past it ? What would it do to them? They are the reason why I’m here. The reason I don’t do it. It’s not fair to them. So I think that each situation is different . My siblings would miss me , my friends would miss me , but everyone would get over it . But my kids will have to live with growing up without a mother , and I can’t do that to them.
If their father was more involved and they had a better relationship with him, if I knew they would be in great hands without me , then maybe I still would go thru with it.
I think it’s a very individual based answer.
why is this a question at all? if a person decides to take his life then what can we do about it? society will impose its restrictions. some may find it offensive and others may think that it is alright but ultimately the individual is responsible. If being born was due to the action of two (nowadays even one) individual(s) then suicide can also be the action of one or more individuals. atleast it seems that way. if the law criminalizes suicide then the only problem for the person who attempts it is the result of failure is punishment. i dont know which is worse, a jail term or the failure to commit suicide
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I heard once: "The healthy human mind doesn't wake in the morning thinking it is it's last day on earth, that a luxury, not a curse." I think it isn't always right.
People are made from their culture, the influence they had, their experiences. In Japan some situations are considered worst than dead ,unemployment and social pressure are good examples. It all depends in the way that culture or the media (in the case of the West) sees suicide, sometimes as a coward act, sometimes as a valiant one. The religious point of view it's quite tedious of talking. Some people's mind aren't strong enough to bear some situations of their lives and I can't blame them for putting end to a situation their consider humilliating or painfull.