• Is suicide a selfish act?
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[quote]"I have now come to the conclusion that suicide is an absolutely selfish act. I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess. Be an adult, act like an adult and deal with your real-life problems like the rest of us." -Major General Dana Pittard[/quote] [quote]"It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitably lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?" -Emilie Autumn[/quote] Note that I've never dealt with anyone who has committed or considered suicide nor have I ever remotely considered it myself. I'm not sure what I think about this question. It is selfish in that when someone commits suicide, they're hurting anyone who cares about them. The person committing suicide doesn't have to deal with the pain, and they leave their problems to be dealt with by others. It's absolutely selfish in the respect that they're choosing to leave their friends and family because they can't deal with their problems. However, those committing suicide sometimes are dealing with immense amounts of psychological (or physical) pain, making it so difficult to experience any positive emotion that in which case it might really be the only solution. Again, I've (thankfully) never been in any situation involving suicide, so I don't really know. Thoughts? [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Asking for Opinions/No Debate Started" - Megafan))[/highlight]
Of course it's selfish in the basic definition of the word. They are doing it for nobody but themselves. The question should be, rather, does that make it ok?
If they're committing suicide for a valid reason ie., indefinite chronic pain or terminal illness I don't think it's selfish at all.
[QUOTE=TamTamJam;36924473]If they're committing suicide for a valid reason ie., indefinite chronic pain or terminal illness I don't think it's selfish at all.[/QUOTE] they're the one suffering from the pain and illness, therefore, selfish.
isn't it more selfish for others to expect one that is indefinite pain that will not get any better even with treatment to live on for their sake?
I've had three close friends from high school that's contemplated about suicide and only one actually tried to kill herself. From my experience, I believe that suicide is a selfish act and is not okay. The reasons were petty and something that everyone had to deal with once or twice in their life and they just wanted to kick the bucket and let their friends and family deal with all their problems while mourning their sons' or daughter's lost life. However, it's not always a selfish act, the example I can think of is throwing your life on the line to protect someone else's life.
it's kind of a difficult topic to discuss considering how situational it is. while the act is technically selfish, i think the only real way to judge whether it's "justified" is how impulsive the act of suicide was. someone who has been loyally planning their own demise for years likely has a huge amount of emotional problems and hasn't found a way to cope with them. however, take into account that suicide isn't easy and anyone suicidal knows it will be excruciatingly painful. it takes guts to commit suicide and often the person is in a huge amount of pain to the point where they consider death a better alternative.
Yeah, it's selfish, but the problem is if they're committing suicide they probably have a very good reason why. Like has been mentioned before, they might be in horrible pain or suffering from a mental illness that makes them suicidal, like depression. In cases like incredibly horrible pain and terminal illness, selfishness can go both ways in the case of a suicide. In one way, it's selfish for the person to commit suicide because it'd be devastating for him to die because of ties to family and such. At the same time, though, it's also selfish for the family to keep him alive because he's suffering so much and you're keeping him alive because of your emotional needs. Basically, you can't call suicide selfish. At least not 100% of the time.
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