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Do you believe that if you are of sound mind that you would have the right to end your life based on life issues other than extreme physical or terminal illness?
I believe that you do have that right if life has caused you to question your existence in the first place.
Yes and yes. In fact, I've been considering it for 2 years now. Long overdue for me. When your dreams are shattered and you can't recover from it, cut your losses. Thats what I intend to do.
No..because anyone who would consider that is not in the right frame of mind, they need help if they consider it...your assuming an healthy minded person would want to end their life? NO..not that is not possible.
However, you also have an obligation to those around you. Will your taking your own life make it worse for them? Will they feel guilt because they didn't do more for you?
While you may think that your death will not affect anyone, you can't be sure of this. Would you really want to make life worse for someone else?
If nothing else, think about the person that will find your body. Will it be a horrible experience that they will never forget? Bloody? Smelly?
Think about the person that has to pay for your disposal (even if it's the taxpayer that puts you in a pauper's grave) Make sure that you leave behind money to pay for this.
And don't forget that your insurance policy will not pay a single dime to anyone, if they discover that your death was caused intentionally by you. Suicide is an exemption to insurance claims. So best make sure your loved ones have plenty of money to cover the cost of your cremation - and don't forget you can't be buried in a catholic or jewish cemetary if you kill yourself.
In summary - you don't have a _right_ to kill yourself. You -can- kill yourself - meaning, you're probably capable of completing such a task. But it isn't a right granted to you by any government, or by Judeo-Christian law. It is also not an "inalienable right" - meaning, the right to life, liberty, or persuit of happiness. The right to death - is not a right. It's a fact. You -will- die, eventually. Attempting to kill yourself is actually illegal in some states, and if you fail, and are caught, you could be institutionalized without your consent and declared incompetent.
So no, it's not a right. It might be an ethically or morally correct act in certain circumstances, but being ethically and/or morally correct doesn't make it a "right."
I agree with Padgett2 that you have an "obligation to those around you". My daughter's best friend killed himself at age 16. He suffocated himself with a plastic bag and ziptie on a Thursday night. His parents found him the next morning. My daughter blamed herself for notinsisting that he stay on the phone with her when he sort of "blow her off" during a phone conversation on Thursday afternoon. She was so devastated that we had to watch her very carefully for the next months because of her sudden, serious depression. It is now eight years later and his death is still a part of her daily life (sort of like PTS) and still greatly effects her mental health. He has several other close friends who also have PTS type problems or started having problems with depression after his death. And, needless to say, his parents and siblings were and are heartbroken.
Athough, D. had been battling depression for some time when he took his own life there was no immediate warning. In fact, he had made numerous advanced plans to do things with friends (as was his nature). He had plans to meet with my daughter on Saturday and had tickets to go to a concent with a friend for his friend's birthday the next week, etc. As far as anyone knows nothing out of the ordinary happened that week or that Thursday and no one has any idea why he did it.
I don't know why D. did what he did but everytime my daughter calls me up at 3 o'clock in the morning crying I wonder if things wouldn't have been different if he would have had the courage to continue living rather than taking his own life that night.
Please get help. What may seem like a shattered life today, this week, this month or even this year (or two years) may be able to be repaired. Please for the sake of everyone around you try again.
If that person was your chlid, mother or best friend, would you tell them, ok sure, you have a right to go off yourself? Would you tell that to someone you love? NO! I serously doubt that!
And don't forget that your insurance policy will not pay a single dime to anyone, if they discover that your death was caused intentionally by you. Suicide is an exemption to insurance claims.
That's incorrect.
Life insurance policies exclude payment for suicide only during the first one or two years of the policy term. After that, suicide claims are paid just like any other cause of death.
Do you believe that if you are of sound mind that you would have the right to end your life based on life issues other than extreme physical or terminal illness?
I believe that you do have that right if life has caused you to question your existence in the first place.
Julia
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Originally Posted by Atlguy39
Yes and yes. In fact, I've been considering it for 2 years now. Long overdue for me. When your dreams are shattered and you can't recover from it, cut your losses. Thats what I intend to do.
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