Poll: Suicide - Your opinion

[Insanum]

Search bar Approved[/B] (there was a poll on assisted suicide, But nothing like this)

For some random reason whilst sitting here bored at work my mind has wandered & I've remembered a conversation I had with an old colleague of mine about suicide. The act of taking your own life.
Her view was that Suicide was a selfish act, and it was despicable, meanwhile I just saw her as judgmental & narrow minded. My opinion has always been that you do not know what was going through someones mind, Some people are stronger than others & that it is very sad when someone takes their own life.

I have the feeling that everyone at some point has thought of taken the permanent solution to a Temporary problem, but something always kicks in and stops you.

A close family friend (that i didnt know very well tbh) recently committed suicide, and we do not know why, she had no problems, She was young, Beautiful, and didn't have any financial Woes.

Here is my question to you, Good people of the Escapist - What is your opinion on it?

EDIT: Assisted suicide is a different issue, you can discuss it but it wasn't what i was aiming
to discuss.

EDIT 2: Added a couple more options.

Edit 3: Can i just put out there the point of organ donation & suicide, how they could go together?

OP RESPONSE 5 PAGES IN:

The general theme appears to be that attention seeking attempted suicide makes the whole issue seem...cowardly. The majority of the people that overcome the urge to survive (The one urge everyone has) and manage to end it arent here to tell their story.

Also, ive noticed no comments on organ donations either - Sure organs used from someone committing suicide would save lives ~ A selfless act, Even if its not intentional.

 

[CakeDragon]

I see it as a form of cowardice. Loads of people consider it, but only a few actually do it.
I personally have a fear of dying and what's to come after death, I don't know why anyone would want to find out sooner.

Edit: I forgot to mention about assisted suicide, I think if a person (who is suffering from a terminal illness, bedridden, and is pretty much a vegetable to the world) wants to end their life then they should be able to, or at least, have people they can turn to for help (not in THAT way, more like advice)

 

[headshotcatcher]

In my opinion it is weak and selfish, I'd rather go down fighting than kill myself at rockbottom.. Seriously, what could ever warrant suicide? Instead of fleeing from the terrible situations try to better them..

 

[MaskedMori]

I see it as a form of cowardice. Loads of people consider it, but only a few actually do it.
I personally have a fear of dying and what's to come after death, I don't know why anyone would want to find out sooner.

Well, maybe because life becomes so harsh that it would be better to take a risk on it than have to suffer more. *Shrug* This only really applies to people locked in dungeons etc..

 

[CakeDragon]

I see it as a form of cowardice. Loads of people consider it, but only a few actually do it.
I personally have a fear of dying and what's to come after death, I don't know why anyone would want to find out sooner.

Well, maybe because life becomes so harsh that it would be better to take a risk on it than have to suffer more. *Shrug* This only really applies to people locked in dungeons etc..

That is very true.
I wonder what suicide rates were like back in the Middle Ages..?

 

[The Cheezy One]

i thought of this, but it was a

permanent solution to a Temporary problem

i was really being selfish, i didnt like myself, or the people around me, and it felt like an easy way out
however, i clicked depends, because there are people worse off then me

 

[Abedeus]

I see it as a form of cowardice.

Yep, it's cowardice in my eyes.

"The only person I cannot trust now... Is myself. *BANG!* *pat*"

 

[MaskedMori]

I see it as a form of cowardice. Loads of people consider it, but only a few actually do it.
I personally have a fear of dying and what's to come after death, I don't know why anyone would want to find out sooner.

Edit: I forgot to mention about assisted suicide, I think if a person (who is suffering from a terminal illness, bedridden, and is pretty much a vegetable to the world) wants to end their life then they should be able to, or at least, have people they can turn to for help (not in THAT way, more like advice)

What... The hell? That was... Quick. Anyways, I think suicide is alright. A person should be able to choose if they want to live or not. Unless they have responsability. (Like a child) Those who kill their children/wife/GF then themselves are selfish. (Unless of course... The other is willing... Probably wont apply to children...)

 

[JakCurse]

I tend to think that it's ok in certain circumstances. well- not ok, but understandable.

 

[justnotcricket]

I've always considered it (not assisted suicide, but the traditional version) to be selfish in the extreme, but then my life has never been so terrible that I've ever considered it, so I suppose I can't really stand in judgement against those who have.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Suicide is an interesting behavior. It proves that humans are something apart from animals who are simply slaved to the genetical will to live and life's mindless will to spread it's genes.

It proves we have a choice, rather than being mindless idiot creatures who only live for the purpose of procreation.

It's also a sad reminder of the fact that humans have a choice, but simply choose to be the worst they can be most of the time...

 

[Kermi]

I don't think there's ever a justifiable reason to give up, as least when discussing suicide from a social standpoint as an outcome up despair.
But people who suffer severe trauma be it physical or mental, are not likely to behave in irrational ways.

If I went into work on Monday only to get fired, then on my way home receive phone calls informing me my entire family was killed in a housefire that also destroyed all of my possessions, and the police were closing in my possession because they had been informed by an anonymous tipster that I was a heroin-smuggling paedophile sex tourist with AIDS, I might well throw myself under a train.

 

[MaskedMori]

As someone who has just recently lost a family member I didn't like to suicide, I can safely say I have no strong feelings either way.

The idea that gutting yourself is honorable is stupid.
It's not "wrong" because...well, why would it be?
Same for right.
It could be thought of as cowardly because you're making the easy choice to take a hasty exit out of life because you're not strong enough to deal with it.
It could also be thought of as brave by some because, well, I guess it takes a lot of guts to put a gun to your head and pull the trigger.

Suicide is just a "meh" subject for me.
Though I will admit: I get annoyed at unanswered questions, so I prefer for them to leave a note (as long as I'm not blamed for anything in it.)

Not really an unanswered question, more of a subject that has no correct answer.

 

[Shadowed Intent]

I think suicide is fine in certain circumstances, I also do not see it as cowardly.
I don't like writing walls of text so I will leave it at that.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

I never want to have to talk someone out of it again.

And that's all I'm going to say on the matter.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Suicide thread. These go bad quickly.

This is what I have to say, I divide suicide into two classes.

There are people terminally ill, who have told their family that if they can't take care of their smallest needs by their self, they'd rather not inflict it on their loved ones to do so, when it resorts to this it is undoubtedly horrible for the family in question, but their loved one is no longer suffering.

Then there are people who can't deal with facts, facts that some people have it worse than them, facts that they're not matured enough for a longlasting relationship, and facts that their idiocy and selfishness will put their family through needless amounts of pain.

That's all I have.

 

[ThreeWords]

I see it as a form of cowardice. Loads of people consider it, but only a few actually do it.
I personally have a fear of dying and what's to come after death, I don't know why anyone would want to find out sooner.

You see people doing something you fear, and you call it cowardice? That strikes me as a little hypocritical, my friend

I never want to have to talk someone out of it again.

And that's all I'm going to say on the matter.

I want to ask, but I probably shouldn't. Ah well, you likely won't tell me anyway

In my opinion, it doesn't matter. It's their life, and if they want to leave, that's their choice. It's not for me to decide that they are brave or cowardly, right or wrong

 

[CuddlyCombine]

If anyone considers suicide, I'd tell them to go watch a documentary on the poverty in Africa or even here in North America. Those people struggle to eat two meals a day, and they make it somehow. How could your life be worse than that?