When should suicide become an option?
ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2008) — The rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Polic
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My own belief is that suicide should only be an option of the terminally ill, if at all. Unfortunately when you're dealing with psychological problems the quest for death becomes their only option and that is how they see it. I've been involved in too many of them to count and will not forget any of these poor people who were so spiritually bankrupt that this became their only option. Some were in therapy and some not. Therapy takes a very long time and most times doesn't help soon enough for those who wait too long. As we sit here in our logical minds we think one must have a choice. Some of these or most of these do not. They see no light....only darkness. Side: Terminally ill and that's a maybe
Isn't suicide, by definition, the option of the person committing it? So then are you talking about euthanasia? And if you're talking about preventing suicides, there really isn't much people can do besides improving living conditions and such. Side: Terminally ill and that's a maybe
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There is only so much one can do for these unfortunate people and it has to do with what is inside, not outside. How many times have you heard of, let's say, a Rock or Movie star who has committed suicide. You believe they had everything...so why, why do this? They had everything money could buy but inner strength and happiness... and sometimes fulfillment. It's never external....it's internal! Side: Terminally ill and that's a maybe
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I think that they reason they don't do a rebuttal is because they know they are out classed and out gunned in the arena of wit. Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed individual. It's like trying to teach a pig to dance (no pun intended. I'm sure you're a good dancer). Side: Let them kill themselves
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OK you bunch...This year I lost my niece at the age of 38 to what may very well have been a suicide...the only problem is we'll never know if it was accidental or meant. Hop over to my blogs on My Space and see for yourself what this type of death has wrought. Don't you guys have any empathy for those whose lives are so shattered by whatever they perceive and whatever demons one wrestles with, that suicide becomes the only way out of the tremendous pain they suffer? I can only pray you'll never have to deal with something like this in your family or with close friends. It is the most painful experience you'll ever know. Side: Are there no prisons no workhouses
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