(January 4, 2014 at 4:43 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Purposefully ending one's own life is not an indication of sound mental health, excepting terminal situations.
There are other exceptions. As someone mentioned earlier, some cultures feel that people should kill themselves if they have dishonored themselves. Also, people kill themselves all the time to avoid the consequences of their actions, such as committing crimes for which they face lengthy sentences. That's cowardly, but it doesn't mean they weren't of sound mental health.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
