Is suicide an act of selfishness?

[vasu 32]

No. If it's my right how should I live, it's also my right how I should die.

 

[FemmeFatale]

No, you weren't put on this earth to please others. Calling someone selfish for commiting suicide is selfish, because your thinking about you own feelings

 

[RAMENATOR]

it's nothing but weak people.... really.

That's a pretty bold, and broad statement. Do you consider terminally ill patients to also be weak, especially when they finally succumb to their illness? They way depression has been explained and described to me is like an emotional cancer, and it isn't simply the result of a weak mind. There is often a chemical imbalance which produces negative emotions and feelings and it is a very real struggle for many people. Are some people who commit suicide weak? Sure. However, labelling every single one as weak or cowardly is pretty naive. I find those who battle depression and suicidal thoughts, and also continue to live a normal life, to be much stronger than those of us who don't have that struggle; the same way I admire cancer patients who refuse to give up, even if they still lose the fight eventually.

-S

 

[Handsome Jack]

That's a pretty bold, and broad statement. Do you consider terminally ill patients to also be weak, especially when they finally succumb to their illness? They way depression has been explained and described to me is like an emotional cancer, and it isn't simply the result of a weak mind. There is often a chemical imbalance which produces negative emotions and feelings and it is a very real struggle for many people. Are some people who commit suicide weak? Sure. However, labelling every single one as weak or cowardly is pretty naive. I find those who battle depression and suicidal thoughts, and also continue to live a normal life, to be much stronger than those of us who don't have that struggle; the same way I admire cancer patients who refuse to give up, even if they still lose the fight eventually.

-S

I wasn't talking about patients now, which I understand, if they want to commit suicide because of some illness... I was talking about those people, who have depression because of love, money or whatever the reasons are... and they wanted to commit suicide. it's them who I call weak people. In my perspective of course.

 

[RAMENATOR]

I wasn't talking about patients now, which I understand, if they want to commit suicide because of some illness... I was talking about those people, who have depression because of love, money or whatever the reasons are... and they wanted to commit suicide. it's them who I call weak people. In my perspective of course.

I was likening depression to terminal illnesses, not referring to terminal patients with depression. Depression itself can be like a cancer of the mind. It's not simply someone who is weak and can't handle life. There are people who are weak and can't handle life, or commit suicide for rather small problems, but just because someone commits suicide, doesn't make them a weak person. That is all I'm trying to say. Your statement was generalized and offered no context. So I do agree with you to a great extent.

-S