Suicide: Yes or No.
Now, this will be a mighty controversial topic, so if some one starts dropping insults, ad hominems or what have you, please lock the thread. I don't want that pooping up my threads. Anyway...
The topic is about suicide. Not the legality of it or anything, but your own opinion. Mainly, is it ok to try to force some one to get help or whatever and prevent their decision or should it be completely up to them whether they wish to live or die.
Personally, I have multiple standings on the issue. When it comes to a person saying how bad their life is and begging for pity while threatening to kill themselves, I loathe nothing more in this world than that. There are so many people worse off and these well off 1st world ****s want to off themselves because nobody loves them. In these instances, I will tell some one to get over it and if they did kill themselves, it's horribly selfish. Mainly the people that stew in their own self pity, I can't possible feel sorry for some one that wont help themselves. We all know the people. But on the other hand, if some one is truly suffering, mainly from physical pain, I can't possibly tell them not to.
Now, I understand it will hurt other people emotionally or even financially, but there is no way I can understand what another person is going through. If their life is pain and they have thought long and hard about it, I really feel they deserve it, if it is what they wish. It's a very difficult decision, but would suicide prevention in such cases be ripping away a persons rights?
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