Right to Die

[Edwardo Piet]

Right, this would be my reasoning for stopping someone jumping off a cliff. I couldn't be sure if they were of sound mind or not. Maybe they would thank me the next day for having stopped them.

I try not to interfere with the lives of people I don't know as a general rule, but I may take the risk in this case and assume they were not of sound mind.

Or maybe they were in a sound state of mind, and I'd be prolonging their misery after they made an educated decision.

They way I see it is: If they are of sound mind it will show. They will be able to calmly explain to me that they want to die and it is a decision they are making. It's very different to someone listing a bunch of paranoid reasons for wanting to die, for example.

Which is the lesser of the two evils? I feel almost certain I would try and stop them; you could say that a suicide attempt is in itself a sign of quite possibly not being in your right mind.

I think that if the person is of sound mind and rational you can talk it through with them and support them if they're still sure, whereas if they're not you can't

I would try to stop them, talk to them to discover if they were of sound mind and if it turns out they were I would apologize, explain that I wasn't sure if they were of sound mind or not, and then fully support their decision to go to jump off the cliff if they were still sure.

This is ideally how I would behave at my most rational, I am not sure if it's how it would play out in reality.