My sister read me the news last night and I was like "don't you ever look at my journal??" So you're not the last to know.
Not being a religious person, I don't have that to consider when I debate this. I do think suicide in anything other than a terminal illness situation should be prevented, but not because some all-knowing Seeing Eye is going to come down on the person for it. My argument is, death is irreversible, and while you won't regret being successful at it once the deed is done, you could screw it up and have MORE problems than the ones that drove you to suicide, or you could have that brief flash of regret just before death takes you, after you've already done whatever - and it's too late to reverse or fix it. But if you're terminally ill, there is no hope of recovery, and you're miserable, if you feel like you're losing nothing by ending your life, should I talk you out of it?
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Date: 2011-06-05 02:49 pm (UTC)Not being a religious person, I don't have that to consider when I debate this. I do think suicide in anything other than a terminal illness situation should be prevented, but not because some all-knowing Seeing Eye is going to come down on the person for it. My argument is, death is irreversible, and while you won't regret being successful at it once the deed is done, you could screw it up and have MORE problems than the ones that drove you to suicide, or you could have that brief flash of regret just before death takes you, after you've already done whatever - and it's too late to reverse or fix it. But if you're terminally ill, there is no hope of recovery, and you're miserable, if you feel like you're losing nothing by ending your life, should I talk you out of it?