curiosity..got the cat defriended

[symphonic_dame]

I was reading an essay I wrote ages ago, about rational suicide as a right, & started wondering about other people's thoughts on it. My high school English teacher's input was purely toward the essay's technical aspects, so basically, I had no opinion other than my own about the subject.

So, I'm curious..

Comments

[spartan_117]

No it's not a scary thought because people like you will eventually make a difference in something that should always be the right of the individual and not society or even worse those blasted right to life people and the church.

I believe that suicide is the right of every person who chooses that option. That's not to say I think a person should just go out and kill themselves for no reason, although if they want to then it still should be their right but when life has become something so unbearable, be it through pain or an inability to cope to the point that death is the better and only option that person can see then yes I think that person deserves that right.

I don't understand why people would rather see another person suffer through chronic pain or a quality of life so bad we'd call them cruel to let an animal suffer like that just because they can't cope with death. That, to me is far more cruel than letting that person end it with dignity or allowing them the escape from a life that is unbearable.

I have an LJ friend who's tried to commit suicide several times now. I think you missed most of my LJ panic over it but in the end I said to her that if she felt suicide was the only option she felt she had and that dealing with life was so bad it was just too painful to live then I'd support her.

Not sure he family would have agreed with me and my only request was that if she did finally take her life that her boyfriend, Ben let me know, which was why I'd panicked in the first place. I love her dearly but in dealing with her mental needs I realised it was selfish of me to demand she stay alive because I'd miss her. In the end we came to an agreement that she would atleast try to get help before taking the option of suicide but I'd support her decision which ever she made and in the end isn't that what we should really do?

[symphonic_dame]

That, to me is far more cruel than letting that person end it with dignity or allowing them the escape from a life that is unbearable.
Yess. And I don't think it's a cowardly thing to do either. It's just saving time, in some cases. It's actually practical.

In the end we came to an agreement that she would at least try to get help before taking the option of suicide but I'd support her decision which ever she made and in the end isn't that what we should really do?
Definitely. I would've done the same things as you. And you're a great friend for doing so :]

[love your ikon, btw]