A lot of people consider suicide to be a cowardly act, but is it really? A lot of people fear death because it is a state that the mind cannot comprehend. Making a permanent decision like this despite the persons' darkest despair is actually quite brave. A lot of people consider suicide to be selfish, but is it really more selfish to let the person live in pain just because you can't emotionally deal with the fact that the person is gone. The fact is, it is the person's life and body and they have every right to do with it as they please, including ending it. I don't understand why people feel the need to intervene when someone wants to die. If one can't cope with life, then IMHO maybe it would be better if they are dead. It's not fair to a person to have to continue to live a miserable life just so a few people can pat themselves on the back.
I also believe human beings should have a right to euthanasia. We'll happily put down a pet who is suffering, but not humans? Wouldn't it be more humane to let a cancer patient who is in excruciating pain and agony die peacefully?
Now in some cases suicide is a cowardly act. Take
Budd Dwyer a Pennsylvania politician who offed himself during a televised press conference after being charged with receiving kickbacks and was facing 55 years in prison. Killing yourself in front of other people is not fair to the people around you, humans do not handle violent trauma especially the way he did it as you can see in this interesting yet extremely graphic and disturbing video:
Warning this is an extremely graphic videohttp://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/SUICIDE/dwyer.mpg The reason I posted that video is to show the dramatic effects a live suicide has on people. Yes you have the right to die, but you can atleast have the common courtesy to isolate yourself. The fact that you commited suicide is painful enough for the people around you, why would you do the act in front of others, especially in such a violent fashon as Budd did.
Then their are people who commit suicide to make a political statement such as the self-immolation of
Malachi Ritscher, he did this on the kennedy expressway in Chicago back in 2006 to protest the Iraq war. While I find doing this to be a bit extreme, it does send a powerful message as seen by the site:
http://www.iheardyoumalachi.org/Ending your own life over something that matters to you is a good way to drive your point across as you can see by the site posted above.
Well those are my views on suicide. Although dealing with the suicide of someone you know is painful, I think people should show more respect and compassion for the person's decision as he was only doing what he felt was right in the moment. After all we are all human. What do you guys think?