It seems that...

[bluesira]

...Suicide just can't be morally wrong, because it happens in the natural world.

The following quote is from my biology textbook:
"...A broken strand of DNA may block replication, causing a cell to commit suicide by issuing molecular signals for its own death."

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[bluesira]

I thought about it a bit before putting it up, because I figured that issue would come up. Naturally, my thoughts jumped to murder. Animals kill each other all the time, but does that make it right?
Well, animals in nature kill for their own survival, I reasoned, and I believe it is not wrong for human animals to kill for survival either.
And also considering that I use the example of homosexuality in nature as one of my supports for homosexuality not being wrong, I figured it was okay to go in this sort of direction.

Still, it is true that all sorts of things that happen in the natural world that just make no sense. For example, there is a kind of bird that always gives both to two offspring, and then, no matter their health or how much food is available, one of the baby chicks will kill the other one. That's pretty senseless murder with no direct correlation to the remaining chick's survival. (You could say that it's a natural selection, 'survival of the fittest' process, but I think it's pretty pointless to have a bird go through the trouble of laying two eggs just for one of them to always die.)

And maybe it's a dangerous direction to go in - applying the idea of morality to nature. Because nature in and of itself lives according to no such ideas.

Moreover, the kind that I was trying to make is more along the lines of this:
Imagine someone is trying to say to you that suicide is morally wrong, and that it should happen under no circumstances, and for no possible reasons. (Maybe they say you'll go to hell for it or whatever, but so as not to discriminate against Christians, we can leave that part out if we want.)
And then you reply by informing them that their own cells have committed suicide at one point or another, most likely.
(I wonder, would the dead cells go to hell...?)

So yeah, it's sort of a sideways argument (and a flimzy one at that), but I still like the possibilities of what it implies.