(November 13, 2013 at 12:07 am)leodeo Wrote: I get really irritated when people say suicide is selfish and wrong and stuff.
I think suicide is what happens when a person is pushed to a point where he can't take it anymore and just wants the pain to stop.
They say "oh u can get psychiatric help" but psychiatric help doesn't always help.
I think under circumstances suicide should be acceptable.
For example if I was paralyzed I wouldn't want to live just because everyone who isn't paralyzed tells me I'm coward if I die, its easy for them to be so pro life when they have healthy bodies.
I really hated in my old Christian communities how they were so pro life for the sake of their morals rather than caring about how Much a person is suffering.
What is the atheist stance on suicide/euthanasia? Now I know from my previous thread y'all said atheists don't follow a dogma u guys just don't believe in a god, but seems like u all do agree in what u believe, ie: u all thought holistic medicine was bs.
So how do we feel about euthanasia?
Its really frustrating cuz I seem to be the only person in the world who thinks that in many cases suicide is better than living.
It's a difficult one.
Suicide itself should be avoided if at all possible. If you're depressed you can seek counselling and it DOES help. Trust me, I suffer from depression and have been suicidal because of it.
Some people, I admit, cannot be saved. They'll find any reason to commit suicide and will likely find a way to do it whatever you try to do to stop them.
Euthanasia, however, using your example of being paralysed, I support if there's no hope, the person has no standard of living and is in continual pain and wants to die.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
