Is suicide an act of selfishness?

[Kishi Uzumaki]

Yes ! just think about, what will happen to ones relay on that person and suicide's not a solution for anything .

 

[Hazo]

You don't understand. You're too ignorant.

Maybe you don't understand there is no point in running away...

Don't you need a certain sense of guts to plunge into the unknown? It is most defintely not cowardice.
A shame, yes. But not cowardice.

They're trying to turn their backs from the responsibilities they have in real world and it doesn't show your courage in the least...

 

[Waindo]

Maybe you don't understand there is no point in running away...



They're trying to turn their backs from the responsibilities they have in real world and it doesn't show your courage in the least...

Totally agree with your post.
It is an ultimate act of cowardice aswell.

 

[YowYan]

Maybe you don't understand there is no point in running away...



They're trying to turn their backs from the responsibilities they have in real world and it doesn't show your courage in the least...

Responsibilities? Responsibilities they never asked for. I always take my responsibilities when it comes to work and appointments and such. I hate it, but I do it. It's not worth it though. I waste my life as an economic slave working 40+ hours a week for 40+ years and I'm supposed to be grateful for the opportunity to work. It's an unnatural, mechanic life. To me it's meaningless and I don't enjoy much in general. That and stackings of problems would make me contemplate suicide every now and then. Why live as a slave all your life if you can end it now? Its simply a choice. I won't do it as I have a caring gf who would be devastated and because I'm scared to do it. And even if a person made the choice to commit suicide, that does not necessarily mean they have the guts to do it.

And it's not running away, simpleton. It's skipping the experience if you deem it worthless.

 

[Gobi Gobletsson]

All acts are selfish, as they in one way or another give a form of satsification or a hand in return. Then we can talk about what degree the selfishness is at, but the statement stands.

That aside, I admire those who got the bravery to perform the act of suicide, while others fail miserably due the lack of courage, when they so innerly are under the assumption that it will help. If it's true or not, I cannot tell. But of course, in most cases it will leave behind questions from family members, friends and acquaintances.

 

[Punk Hazard]

Responsibilities? Responsibilities they never asked for. I always take my responsibilities when it comes to work and appointments and such. I hate it, but I do it. It's not worth it though. I waste my life as an economic slave working 40+ hours a week for 40+ years and I'm supposed to be grateful for the opportunity to work. It's an unnatural, mechanic life. To me it's meaningless and I don't enjoy much in general. That and stackings of problems would make me contemplate suicide every now and then. Why live as a slave all your life if you can end it now? Its simply a choice. I won't do it as I have a caring gf who would be devastated and because I'm scared to do it. And even if a person made the choice to commit suicide, that does not necessarily mean they have the guts to do it.

And it's not running away, simpleton. It's skipping the experience if you deem it worthless.

Unfortunately, many don't see the system that they've been conditioned to be a part of, so they won't fully grasp your post.

 

[Bronze]

I get that. I come from a religious family, trust me. But sometimes prayer is not enough. I mean don't get me wrong. I pray when Im feeling lost, but sometimes God doesn't answer. Sometimes the pain can be too much to bear. It's not easy to put on a smile and just be happy for everyone. People call people who attempt suicide weak and cowards.

And they expect for them to be happy and just let go of their depression FOR THEM! It is not that easy. If you never felt what we felt then you will never get us.

I wasn't trying to make fun of you. Trust me too, I pray and religious, and I ask God to forgive me for the sins I did and still do.

This thread doesn't bother me at all, nor does the topic. Though, I'm about 40% sure you're just asinine like Derp Obito is.

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[10th]

Well of course it's selfish, it involves you ending your life. That's like the definition of selfish behavior.

It hurts the people around you sure but technically they are selfish for wanting you to live miserably.

I wouldn't do it though, I love life.

Only they don't want you to live miserably and everything is temporary.

 

[chopstickchakra]

Yes it is selfish and as a graffiti tag I saw in Germany said "Suicide is Lazy"

 

[SIR HERDERP PRESIDERP SDO]

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, it's stupid.

 

[FreakensteinAG]

I wouldn't call it cowardly or lazy or selfish, but I would call suicide a wrong thing to do. I was thinking about doing it in middle school when I was only 14. And then highschool happened. And then college! You know that guy who PSA'd "it gets better"? It does! To commit suicide is to irrationally state that every day beyond that will not change for the better. You don't know that it won't, so stick around.

 

[V h o]

Depends on the circumstances, but that person does have the right to use their life how they see fit....or they should...

 

[RAMENATOR]

As far as it being an act of cowardice, that too is a broad statement. There are just as many reasons to want to live as there are to die. Depression is a fight and suicide is either giving up the fight, or winning it; depending on your perspective.

 

[Sakura Michiko]

I doubt it. I wouldn't call it "Selfish","Stupid", or "Cowardly" because I'm not living those people lives and probably never experienced what they've gone through. I think it's selfish to tell someone with a suicidal mind-set that they are selfish for not thinking of family or friends. What if they person family is crap and they never had friends? Why call them stupid,cowards, or selfish? Are you helping out or trying to prevent them from killing themselves? I had to stop one of my best friends from killing herself a few years ago because her uncle raped her. She was 12. I also have another friend who parents encouraged their kid to kill himself because they said he was stupid. They gave him a bible and told him read it before he went to hell. Lucky he decided not to kill himself and he is living with his cousin. I never told them they were selfish, cowardly, or stupid. When ever I talk to someone who is suicidal I do the mature thing and try to help them out and not criticize them.

 

[~WastelandSociety~]

I think that calling other people selfish is the ultimate form of selfishness, i.e. expecting someone to live for your sake when they are unhappy with life.

It is kinda selfish to kill yourself while your parents worked hard to raise you and other people build that bond with you.
Most of the people kill themselves over stupid reasons such as getting dumped by their GF or BF,getting bullied,etc.. I mean theres other people in the world that are sick,starving and are skin/bones.

Yet people are letting the little things bother them.

 

[Skylar Knight]

Selfish? And forcing them to stay isn't?

 

[Penguin]

Eh. This is a very touchy topic. I don't condone suicide, but there are situations where suicide would seem better than actually living. Not through depression, but if you were a kid and were kidnapped by some weird ass person. Biting off your tongue and bleeding out would hurt, but I bet that would be a better way to go than by having disgusting things done to you then eventually killed by the weird person.

But just through depression? It's not worth it. Horrible decision.

 

[Cornson]

Do you think suicide is selfish? they say if you do it you're only thinking about yourself without taking into consideration the pain of loss your family will go through after you die, so do you think suicide is selfish or not?​

What I think it is:

Unless you are in situation where your terminal. for example sickness, or you wore trapped under fallen debree of some kind and you wore told that there is no way you could get out of it alive, so you could either continue living what moments you had left in a state of almost intollerable amount of pain (if you are in that state it would be the loved ones that would be selfish for keeping you alive to comfort them)

If that wore the case, then I would say yes, it is a selfish act, that is ofcause taking in to account that you have family of friends, if you have no one at all, then it's not really selfish sins no one will miss you.

Also the way you chose to end your life can also be selfish, jumping out infront of a train, off a building slitting your wrists in a tub, shoting yourself in the head or some other way... (other people have to clean up or litterly pick up your broken body, so if you chose to end your own excistence make sure that it does not mentally scar someone else for life! Make sure it will be easy for who ever finds you, to go on living their own life.

I also believe that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem (atleast if you are talking about depression)

 

[SUPERDEADLYKING]

not selfish, there's true despair in this piece of crap reality and not everyone can over come it. That doesn't make them weak but life can also be about luck a lot imo.

 

[Handsome Jack]

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