Should you be allowed to take your own life? *Edited*

should suicide be allowed?

yes?	66.9%	[ 507 ]
no?	33.1%	[ 251 ]
Total Votes:			[ 758 ]

[MarlaCorbin]

UbErWtFpWnErMaN

In my opinion, let people kill themselves. Trying to make someone hold on to life because you don't want to lose a friend is telling that person that he or she is nothing but an extension of you. Most people who honestly want to die feel as such because they're tired of the world around them, including their friends and family. Just because you know someone doesn't mean they're obligated to make your life more fun. As for the idea of an "afterlife"? I'm atheist, but trying to scare someone into living by saying suicide is bad rivals the intellectual weight of reading verse to kittens.

considering huge amounts of the population go through some form of suicidal tendencies, and much fewer amounts actually go through with it, can you say that it is better to not stop a suicidal person considering that, that person if given the chance will probably get over it? And it is kind of cynical for you to say that someone who is trying to stop a suicide is doing it only for selfish reasons.

[II-bloodysweets]

I dont think so

[devilbuddha]

suicide is usually performed in some kind of distress in which the person is not thinking in a complete sense. their perception is altered to only be aware of certain things. this is a process to get into this state that often results from outside influences. genetic disposition may be to blame, but it usually takes environmental situations on top of that to affect the individual. I do think steps should be taken to make the individual aware that they have other options and their currently perceived situation is not the only way of doing things. once they are given proper medical treatment and treated like a human being (which rarely happens) then they should be allowed the option if they still so desire to end their life. this is a total idealistic way of going about it. i doubt the individual if actually treated like a valuable human being would still choose to kill themselves. unfortunately people that decide to commit suicide are not usually given the proper attention.

[MarlaCorbin]

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[Vosi]

MarlaCorbin

Should suicide attempts be allowed instead of trying to prevent them?

No. Even if we were to drop the emotions and sparing your life, you're being dead and uncared for is just asking for diseases. You could make hundreds of people sick if they live in apartments and whatnot.

[MarlaCorbin]

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MarlaCorbin

Should suicide attempts be allowed instead of trying to prevent them?

No. Even if we were to drop the emotions and sparing your life, you're being dead and uncared for is just asking for diseases. You could make hundreds of people sick if they live in apartments and whatnot.

o.0 thats new

[Vosi]

MarlaCorbin

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MarlaCorbin

Should suicide attempts be allowed instead of trying to prevent them?

No. Even if we were to drop the emotions and sparing your life, you're being dead and uncared for is just asking for diseases. You could make hundreds of people sick if they live in apartments and whatnot.

o.0 thats new

Really? I thought for sure someone would think of this.

[Sugar Sweet Sadism]

In all honesty, with an ambition to become a counselor for teenagers, I would try to stop them. I would believe that there was some sort of problem going on that was causing them a lot of grief and perhaps diminishing their personal sense of reason. Growing up, I remember a large amount of my friends have told me that they have wanted to die or attempted to kill themselves or at least thought of suicide, and I was always confused as to why. It can also be a plea for attention as well. Perhaps someone just can't feel sorry for them self enough so they have to get other people to feel sorry for them.

[MarlaCorbin]

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MarlaCorbin

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MarlaCorbin

Should suicide attempts be allowed instead of trying to prevent them?

No. Even if we were to drop the emotions and sparing your life, you're being dead and uncared for is just asking for diseases. You could make hundreds of people sick if they live in apartments and whatnot.

o.0 thats new

Really? I thought for sure someone would think of this.

you'd think so. But alas, no

[Neryma]

Well you have all profoundly depressed me.
I have never attempted to commit suicide. I know too many people, indirectly, who suceeded and I am just grateful someone I know dearly, wasnt one of them.
She has never been on suicide watch but she has tried to 'cut' her pain away.
Something tragic happened. I believe if it happened before she had another human being to live for ( a child) the chances of her killing herself would have been much grater. I know this person well enough to know- if it werent for this little baby, she would likely have wanted to.
Do you think this mother should be allowed to kill herself and abandoned her child because of a hurt that- even though it doesnt seem like it- would ease eventually?

And I and this person are christians. We believe that suicide = hell. This is My Believe (and hers) I am not trying to convince of this. ( We will all see one day and this is not a religion topic). So if Suicide means hell, and she still considers it, do you think she should be allowed? or do you think Maybe you should try to stop her and get her to see that life up here is worth sticking it out?
thats my soapbox speech..

[Ippiki 0okami]

PROTIPS for anyone out there wanting to an hero:

* Get a reputable crime scene cleaner to pick up your dead (and potentially rotting) corpse. No one loved you before you were dead, they'll love your useless mass of rotting meat even less. Look in your local yellow pages for them.
* Before you make the big step towards Hell, where you will be roasting for all eternity alongside Ellen DeGenerate; Adolf Hitler, and whatever sick, sick individual came up with the idea of Chinese Finger Traps -- get rid of your possessions and friends! Do you honestly think you need them? And make sure it's a complete surprise for other people. It may even be fun to mislead them with false evidence.
* State your intention in your online journal. DUH.
* Party like an animal. Hey, it's your last time to do whatever you wanted!
* Die.

[Clandestinus]

Haven't read through the entire thread, didn't want to bother.
It makes me sad the way some people view suicide, the things people assume.
Just because someone cuts does NOT make them emo. Sadly, "emo" has spun into it's own thing and become just another label.
I have cut in the past. Do you know how much it angers me whenever I'm told that I'm "emo" simply because I do/have CUT? I have issues, and I think everyone is. Some are more vocal about, others aren't.
I believe that in some regards, suicide is selfish. To whoever that has said that everyone will move on, that your friends, family, boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, whoever, would get over it....
If you HONESTLY believe that people can get over things like that, you're delusional. It takes awhile to get over a death, let alone a suicide. The pain can subside, but no one can truly get over a death. I've had close relatives die, and in fact, my great grandmother might even be dying right now. I can't get over that fact. I can ignore it, but it will sit in my mind and keep coming up. When someone has "gotten over" a death, it just means that it's no longer the first thought in their mind. It does NOT mean that the person who is gone is forgotten and uncared for.

I've never attempted suicide, but it has been a thought that runs through my mind. When I was 14, I played with my life. I think suicide is something that can be prevented, because even if someone doesn't say anything, there will be changes in behavior and things that can be observed by anyone who is close to them.
Coming from someone who wasn't far from suicide, I've put up walls to see who would break them down. When almost no one broke them down, it just drove me closer to attempting suicide. People could see that I had changed. I either slept too much or too little. I ate too much or too little. People could see I was sad, and they'd ask me what was up, and I would just say "nothing" and it felt like no one cared, just because there wasn't anyone who would dig deeper.
It's not a subject taken lightly for me, and if I know someone who even just cuts themselves, I try to get them to stop, I offer a shoulder to cry on, someone to talk to. It's not just about my conscience. I've been there, and it's horrible.
It's a person's choice, but other people have the power to be there, to ask what is truly wrong and be understanding, to not yell.

That is my two cents, but it's a serious issue.

[MarlaCorbin]

Clandestinus

Haven't read through the entire thread, didn't want to bother.
It makes me sad the way some people view suicide, the things people assume.
Just because someone cuts does NOT make them emo. Sadly, "emo" has spun into it's own thing and become just another label.
I have cut in the past. Do you know how much it angers me whenever I'm told that I'm "emo" simply because I do/have CUT? I have issues, and I think everyone is. Some are more vocal about, others aren't.
I believe that in some regards, suicide is selfish. To whoever that has said that everyone will move on, that your friends, family, boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, whoever, would get over it....
If you HONESTLY believe that people can get over things like that, you're delusional. It takes awhile to get over a death, let alone a suicide. The pain can subside, but no one can truly get over a death. I've had close relatives die, and in fact, my great grandmother might even be dying right now. I can't get over that fact. I can ignore it, but it will sit in my mind and keep coming up. When someone has "gotten over" a death, it just means that it's no longer the first thought in their mind. It does NOT mean that the person who is gone is forgotten and uncared for.

I've never attempted suicide, but it has been a thought that runs through my mind. When I was 14, I played with my life. I think suicide is something that can be prevented, because even if someone doesn't say anything, there will be changes in behavior and things that can be observed by anyone who is close to them.
Coming from someone who wasn't far from suicide, I've put up walls to see who would break them down. When almost no one broke them down, it just drove me closer to attempting suicide. People could see that I had changed. I either slept too much or too little. I ate too much or too little. People could see I was sad, and they'd ask me what was up, and I would just say "nothing" and it felt like no one cared, just because there wasn't anyone who would dig deeper.
It's not a subject taken lightly for me, and if I know someone who even just cuts themselves, I try to get them to stop, I offer a shoulder to cry on, someone to talk to. It's not just about my conscience. I've been there, and it's horrible.
It's a person's choice, but other people have the power to be there, to ask what is truly wrong and be understanding, to not yell.

That is my two cents, but it's a serious issue.

Agreed

[MarlaCorbin]

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[Commander Penguin]

I wish people wouldn't take thier own lives, but how can another person say otherwise? No one's values should dictate the actions of another, such as attempted suicide being illegal. If one wishes to take his/her own life, I would only be ok with it if they have seriously thought it through, rather than do it as a spur-of-the-moment action.