Originally posted by Gorilla
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I can see where she's coming from. Yes, suicide is selfish because you leave many people in pain and suffering to relieve yours, but sometimes people just want out and nothing you can do or say will change that.
Also, if they want to die on their own terms because of a terminal illness that will kill them anyways they should move to Oregon first. Death with Dignity Act, I highly support it. Your terms, pain free, and your loved ones don't have to see you wasting away before you die in lots of pain.
Originally posted by AbnormalButSane
Also, I hold the belief that it's selfish to prevent a person from committing suicide if they don't want help.
Originally posted by AbnormalButSane
People should do what makes them happy as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
Read this , you heartless people!
Originally posted by AbnormalButSane
Sometimes people that don't have terminal illnesses live in a lot of pain as well. And they just want it to end.
You're colder than I.
Not necessarily, but if she'd had a history of repeated suicide attempts and therapy/pain medicine that never helped, then maybe it's a bit selfish of us to make he continue her existence in pain.
I just think people should be able to apply for assisted suicide even if they don't have terminal illnesses. srug
Edit: I'm a weirdo though.
Usually. I think if other things have been tried and nothing has worked, I think assisted suicide should be considered if that's what the patient wants.
Not to mention there are things other than depression that would drive someone to want to obtain assisted suicide. Things that can't always be treated.
Suicide.
If someone wants to die, they will do whatever it takes to achieve that. We can do almost anything we put our minds to.
We all make decisions, and those decisions are ours alone.
We can offer our help, and it's whether or not they decide to reach out to us that we do help them. If someone was in front of me about to kill themselves, as selfish as it might seem.. I'll stop them.
They might not want that. But I shouldn't have to witness something so horrible.
Behind closed doors, it is their choice. But if I am there, I am witnessing it, and I am a part of it, you best be damn sure I'm going to step in, unless my life was in danger.
If I didn't know someone was going to kill themselves, and they decided to do that. How am I in the wrong? What more can I do than to offer my own advice? To offer whatever bit of hope that I could, to ensure them that all would be okay, that their suffering would end, and wouldn't always be?
If I can save someone, and I see that opportunity, I will try. If I know someone is probably going to kill themselves, I will call them, and I will send help..Hoping an praying they'll find the strength to just live.
I'm far from heartless, and all I have to offer is love. Because I know what it's like to feel suicidal, I've been there, and I'm getting out of that rut as we speak.