Is commiting suicide selfish? If you hate yourself so much then why should you deserve the easy way out? ...?
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Are we the selfish ones?By making anothers pain about us are we being selfish?16% Voted for by emmadillemma, petethemeat, nikadvise.
In stating that when one commits suicide and leaves us with all but pain and agony it is selfish.
It was their choice.
Yes. Their suicide will bring us pain but it is rediculous to make it all about what we feel. Their feelings obviously drove them to it and having done it we obviously did not help so why is it such a horrible thing.
Maybe they lacked our support.
Maybe we were being selfish by not providing it.
If someone feels the need to commit, peoples feelings dont come into consideration.
It is up to us to help ourselves. Nothing can be done for us.
It is our race to run.
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No, not always.Most suicides are not well. Because of mental illness, of one form or another, they cannot deal with the life they have been handed. Do they think about the consequences? Usually not.Voted for by Elrenia.
The thing to remember is that most suicides reach out before they get that far. I have heard many people say that they wish they had said something to someone they knew who committed suicide.
It is a choice, but the person is not always in a position to choose wisely. But, they should always be pitied and forgiven by family members. -
I don't think sosuicide is a choice. it may not be the right choice. I believe society has given the impression that suicide is selfish to deter those from making the choice to follow through.Voted for by qwestman.
I think it's selfish to put blame and judgement on one who commits suicide. We can speculate but never know exactly what that person is going through. -
suicidewe are led to believe we have no right to take a life. Not even our own. A permanant soultion to a temporary problem. There's help out there if you want it. watch opra. People do care. If theres a reason to live do it. why kill yourself when you can mess with people. Very Selfish everyone matters.Voted for by PsycoDad.
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mostly nosuicide as an escape from depression is not selfish as the one commiting suicide believes [usualy] the world is better off without them/that no one cares for them therefore their action is not selfish in their intentions as they dont believe there will be any huge negative consequences and thus are not acting selfishly. Its the last point of control in their lives its their choice. Let these desperate people be..Voted for by el.numbre.
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(speaking not religiously)it's only, not selfish, if you leave behind no family, friends, comrades, relations. And if you have practically no place in our society. + If you commit suicide for which others do not have to pay. If you're all of these things, then no, I don't think it's selfish.Voted for by loveyourfate.
Ofcourse, is there any such person...? -
The answer.Is committing suicide selfish?Voted for by frattaro.
Depends on the reasons.
If you hate yourself so much then why should you deserve the easy way out?
It would be incorrect to assume that the subject hates their self. Even if this assumption were correct, there is no correlation with the subject's feelings about their self and what they 'deserve'.
As it has been stated above, a religious viewpoint is painfully obvious, and holds no bearing over the level of selfishness of the act of suicide. I always like to approach the solution to a question by restating the question. In this case, I would ask, 'Is living selfless?' I think that the success of the free market and the failure of controlled markets show that life is a selfish endeavor. Does this mean suicide is selfless? One would be forgoing the competition for limited resources by sacrificing their own place in life.
From that point of view, suicide is selfless. The next point is the factor of collateral damage, the hurt emotions, the recovery from the loss of the subject. There is a lot that is wrong with that. Have you ever said to a family member "I'm considering suicide?" If they don't take it as a joke, you get a ridiculously hysterical reaction. It's by no means their fault, most people are ruled by their emotions. In no way would it be possible for the thought to ever enter their minds that suicide may be the best course of action for this person. The stance that the majority of society holds on suicide doesn't allow this conversation to ever happen. People aren't able to say goodbye because of this. In all my life I've only ever found one person who could talk about it with an open mind.
I suppose the morality of the decision would depend on scope of the reasoning of the subject. If their significant other broke up with them, the scope is obviously too small to be considered a valid logical position. Their reasons must be greater than or equal to the remainder of their life.
A story they often tell naval officers, in order to keep them safe when on shore leave, is about a man who was brutally raped by three women and he ended up paralyzed. It was a case of mistaken identity on part of the women. The military allowed him to commit suicide. The scope of this reasoning behind his suicide seems valid.
Anyway, back to the question. Stating that suicide is "the easy way out" implies that the act of living is flawed. This only adds further support to the pro-suicide argument. The question is asked poorly, at best.
I'm not even sure how to conclude this. Suicide could be made a selfish act, but, it is also selfless.
This question is not black and white, but shades of grey, or gray, depending on your preference in spelling.
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Suicide - Offing OneselfLet’s put aside religion and sin - I think suicide is only selfish if you are affecting someone's life in more than one way than just emotionally. For example, if you are a parent with kids than yes this is selfish because your destroying your kids lives in more than one way than just emotionally.Voted for by snivek101.
If you commit suicide as a teenager than this is cowardly because why throw away your life before you actually get a chance to live. If you are a 25-year-old bachelor with no will to live and your disappearance from this earth would hardly make a difference then NO, this is neither selfish nor cowardly. Therefore, it depends on your circumstance. There are things that people do while still alive that are incredibly selfish. Besides, why should you live in pain just to spare the feelings of others? Some of the other comments that I agree with, and I think people should think about before calling someone selfish cowardly or weak are:
Who are you to judge?
You are only calling it selfish because you have a good life.
If you did not notice they were depressed than you’re the selfish one.
Why should a person care about their image after they’re dead?
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No, it is NOT selfish!I don't blame people who think suicide is selfish, because they obviously have a healthy mind. They haven't experienced severe depression or felt suicidal, so they do not have the slightest comprehension as to how bad it can be. People who commit suicide suffer from severe depression, and depression can be very handicapping.... where the person can not study, work, or maintain relationships. They have a chemical imbalance in their brain and nothing can make them happy. Everything seems negative and life starts to seem pointless. Don't forget that the sleeping and eating disorders start to happen because of the depression which adds to the depression. The pills don't always work, and even if they do, the depression can relapse, and once it relapses, it comes back a lot worse.Voted for by suzy23.
A lot of people think suicide is selfish because the person did not care about their loved ones?! Let me give you a good example...suppose you are hit by a car, suffering from severe pain and dying in the middle of the road.... would u have time to think of your loved ones or the pain? Depression is very similar, but it involves emotional pain.
Depressed people can not take care of themselves, so how can they take care of others? To them, their future seems hopeless, and suicide is the last step a person takes, when everything is failing in life, so how is it selfish? Please don't ignorantly judge people! -
Is preventing suicide selfish?What if we take the argument the other way round...take the example of euthanasia (considered as suicide by some). Is it selfish from the family members to insist on keeping the patient alive (against his will) even though he/she has no reasonable opportunity of completely recovering and leading a normal life ever again? In this case it can be argued that relatives are putting their emotions in the first place and ignoring the patient's. Is that selfish? I would say YESVoted for by nikadvise.
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Of course notit cannot be selfish i have been suicidal for years and i have attempted it many times how dare any of you judge and perceive suicide as selfish just because after someone kills themselves they leave there loved ones behind but obviously if there is something so bad that is making them forget about there loved ones all the ones saying it is selfish has obviously never been truly suicidal if you get to the stage where you are concidering taking your own life after you have tried many alternatives it isnt selfish at all you should all be ashamed of yourself saying it is shameless saying we don't appreciate life of course the suicidal people don't appreciate life since of the cards it has dealt out god open your eyes and talk with somone who is suicidal with psychosis and see what there perception on suicide is they will tell you straight up there life story i have psychosis manic depression social anxiety i have been raped in melbourne multiple occasions and i am a man i have been shot at and beaten up for doing nothing but being myself so i tried to kill myself no one even cared they just threw me into a phsych ward and left me there till i was ok to come back out i came back out and tried again now this is not my story it is a close friends of mine well the rape bit and diagnoses are his i do have depression psychosis social anxiety and suffer psychotic episodes monthly so what would you do in this situation? go and get help? try and kill yourself again? what would you honestly do at the end of all this whenever you try and stand up and get on your feet you just get kicked in the stomach and fall back down is that a life you would want to lead? no.Voted for by ozzielegend.
so how stop it?
suicide but of course councelling therapy and any other help can in some cases help but it didn't for my friend who is now dead after a overdose and my many other friends who have comitted suicide i have attempted it and i was so happy when i tried i finally thought its going to be over all this pain so before you judge wether it is selfish take a look at there life's and live through it THEN MAKE YOUR FUCKING OPINION YOU STUPID BASTARDS -
Yes selfish, but not intentionallySuicide is selfish, how-ever usually not intentionally.Voted for by sca.
Often, the sad thing is that the person comitting suiced is convinced that they won't hurt anyone because they believe that nobody cares - when in reality they have a network of support.
Often, it's depression which may lead to an individual manifesting these beliefs.
Obviously cases vary, but in my experience this seems to be the msot common scenario. -
having survived an attempt myselfi think I can speak with some authority. Suicide is not selfish, but it is irrational. a person who tries it probably has not considered all other options, and is either over-reacting to a situation that can be remedied otherwise, or chemically unbalanced. I fall into both categories. i have chronic depression, and before i went on meds for it, I thought my life was over when arthritis kept me from working, so i tried to shoot myself. the gun misfired.Voted for by NeferMaatNetjer.
I'm glad it did, I think God was looking out for me that day, because he told me to GET HELP!!, so I called 911 and asked for an ambulance. i know that sounds drasticm but consider, i was in a LOT of PAIN! bot physically, from the arthritis, and mentally, from the depression. well, doctors aren't the uneducated morons the press makes them out to be. all it took was some predizone for my athritis, and some effexor for my depression, and i felt a whole world better! I havent even thought about it since and that was 5 years ago.
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Yes it is.now before all of you think im such a bad person i had a very good friend of mine kill himself and i still belive it is very selfish he didnt think of how it would effect everyone around him and that in its self is selfish and if he did think about how it would affect everyone that is selfish as well.Voted for by forget my memories.
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Eh...noI don't think so. I think it is certainly a problem that can easily be resolved simply by letting them know that someone cares.Voted for by Spartan-015.
Say a peer in combat takes a bullet for you, knowing that he won't survive the lethal shot. Would you consider that suicide?
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