Should suicide be unrestricted? (user submitted)

I understand... I am for interventions because of the experiences I have had. That I believe life is worth living and find it very hard to understand otherwise.

I am glad you put it up for vote... its important.

Love is like a box of chocolates; if you chose wisely you won’t be disappointed and have to spit it out. ~T

I know that. I meant to say that it was ridiculous to have made suicide a crime.

"Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos."
Homer Simpson

Did you just propose to Jsaj? You Jsaj is a male, don't you? Not that i have anything against that, just wanted to clarify.

"Consistency is not a human trait" - Maude, from Harold and Maude

I'm sure I've said yes at some point in the past and I stand by my word.

"Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos."
Homer Simpson

I don't know exactly why, but I thought it was Whispers Awnesty. Anyway, thank you.

I tend to agree with you whenever you talk about medical nonintervention and death. I have read other posts where you suggest that it might be more humane to not force life onto a dying human.

I apologize if I have misread you.

It's just that the last poll made me feel that people were confusing physician assisted suicide with actual suicide.

I wanted a distinction.

Generally I am not against physician assisted suicide, but I really do think that the best option for the terminally ill is hospice, which I have pointed out provides a person with a means of committing suicide easily by consuming the weeks supply of morphine in one to two hours.

I don't know how to vote in regards to suicide. I am very conflicted. Like I have said, I have saved people who regretted the action, and it has been discovered the act was in response to a sudden and sever biochemical shift secondary to a new psych med. I have also attended funerals for others who had tried multiple times before finally succeeding.

One thing I can say as a life observer (not preserver) is that children of parents who commit suicide suffer terribly. I find it hard to put such pain on a scale and compare it to other kinds of pain. Suffice it to say that a child who survives the death of a parent by suicide is going to battle with that reality his/her entire life.

Should we give such parents a free pass? I don't know.

To be honest, this is where my pro-choice arguments come in. How is it a benevolent thing to let an unwanted, unparented child be born, allowed to grow in a foster care system, and reproduce? The alternative is to abort the unwanted child and deliver it back into the heart of God.

Isn't suicide a "cardinal sin?" I am sorry if I mislabeled that, I was not raised Catholic.
Nonetheless, there is a degree of severity of sin. I am suggesting that giving birth to an unwanted child that ends up committing suicide is a worse sin than delivering a soul destined to suffer back into the heart of God.

"Consistency is not a human trait" - Maude, from Harold and Maude

I am finding myself disenchanted with ProU secondary to it's overwhelming pro-suicide tone.

I disagree, to be honest. From what I've seen, there is very rarely anything about it. But then again, people find what they look for, so it's possible I'm just not looking.

I have seen multiple blogs started by someone contemplating suicide followed by smug encouragements to go ahead.

If that's the case, and it's on this site, please, by all means, flag it and let the moderators know. Like nearly all of us have mentioned here, such topics should not be taken lightly.

The poll about assisted suicide made me realize that even those who I thought to be more exposed and enlightened were overwhelmingly in support of suicide. I am deeply disturbed.

Someone else mentioned something along these lines, as well. However, I think it only appeared that way because of how the poll was broken up. When you combine the two that leaned more toward "no," you find that it was closer to an even split than "overwhelming" in either direction.

Suicide, and death in general, is a topic that makes most people extremely uncomfortable, but does that mean we shouldn't talk about? I don't think so. Talking about an issue opens doors to understanding. Understanding can help change things. In this case, perhaps it can help prevent people from wanting to commit suicide.

A moral society should have an interest in preserving the life of each and every one of its members. People often commit suicide because of feelings of worthlessness and rejection, and I think every life has intinsic value. So, we should do everything in our power to prevent it, especially since newer medical science sees suicide not as a moral failing but as a condition (almost like a disease that can be cured).

I think making suicide illegal is unnecessary because society already restricts it, without, though, the threat of prosecution and punishment.

Of course, this only applies to people with emotional problems (something treatable and not worth killing yourself over)- it doesn't address people who want to die to end their own suffering. But, that was the point of the last poll, so don't want to bring up old topics... As a side note, I think the reason that assissted suicide is viewed so unfavorably in America is because of our firmly held belief that all life is always valuable.