(December 15, 2016 at 3:30 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: [quote='ukatheist' pid='1470014' dateline='1481828520']
That's a good thing though. Because the thought of it being scary and dangerous helps deter people from actually following though.
I'm not gonna lie, I am very surprised by the responses of this thread. A while back ago we were all extremely worried about a member of this forum after he had made a string of suicidal posts. We organized that someone who lived in his country call the police, who broke down his door in the middle of the night to save him or stop him from whatever he might try to do.
...So it's puzzling for me to see so many people here saying we should not only refrain from trying to deter a suicidal person, but that we should be making suicide easier and more available to them also. I mean, what??
I did not say that a person should not be deterred. I just think that someone who rationally comes to the conclusion that life is preferable to death should have the option of ending it in a way that is pain free and dignified.
And my personal opinion is that if a suicidal person has somewhere to go where they can speak freely about their desire to die, and their reasons, (without being sectioned as being a risk to themselves) that may reveal alternatives that they may not have considered previously. So being deterred by getting help and objectively looking at all the options, rather than by fear I guess is what I am saying.
But, at the end of the day, what place do any of us have to decide that a person who has considered all available options and chosen death, must go on living despite their own wishes or face a painful and risky death?
