(December 14, 2014 at 8:15 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Why do people keep shifting the moral burden away from the one actually contemplating the act? Suicide is a violent act, and the person committing the act knows that they will leave victims behind. They have chosen to commit the act anyway, because the cessation of their own pain is more important to them than the prevention of suffering in others.
If knowingly acting in a way that will cause harm to others isn't unethical, then ethics is a meaningless term.
The fact is, those victims are willing victims, for the most part; with the exception of children, they have chosen to care. They accept the risk that loving a person embodies, the risk that all loves carry in their germs, that we might be hurt, even by the object of our love -- as happens not just by those of us who have been left behind by a suicide, but those of us who have been hurt by lovers, or friends, or any other relationship freely accepted.
Do you owe another person one day of your life?
That is the real question here.
