(November 29, 2017 at 3:19 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I'm not sure either term should really be used to describe people with a mindset that life isn't worth living anymore. Is it courage or cowardice to remain in a situation that makes you so miserable, that you want to die? Honestly someone who has that kind of problem should be helped, or pitied, regardless.
I think the issue is that a lot of the time, when people call suicide cowardly, they are saying that it makes you a bad person. Going by the technical definition, being a coward doesn't necessarily make one a bad person, but that's how most people take it, so I agree that it's not helpful to use that term when talking to suicidal people.
