Would you assist a suicide?

The only acquaintance I've known who committed suicide did so completely outside my knowledge and control.

He was 14. His IQ was in the stars. Schoolmate in Brazil. The teacher broke the news. Shocking to this day.

But we weren't very close friends. Just good schoolmates.

I also had a highschool girlfriend who turned suicidal once she left me for some abusive dude. Here in the States.

I tried helping her through her abortion. But eventually I had to set some boundaries because of my own feelings for her.

We broke contact. Last I heard, she was prostituting herself. And she was adopted as a child into a middle-class family.

 

no

 

no, I would not. quite a controversial subject, but I fail to see how suicide could ever be the best way out. and I've given it a fair bit of thought, as well as had first hand experience with that dark world.

 

Never. I believe everyone has a purpose. If you couldn't do it yourself, it REALLY wasn't your time.

We all have hard times. Some do feel that route is for the best, but I believe life should continue with the path it is taking, no matter how hard it is to travel through it at points.

 

i can think of one person id load the gun and cock the trigger for..

 

You evil old mountain man!

 

No. I consider suicide to be dying of mental illness, which is treatable.

 

in all actuality i do believe in euthanasia and a persons right to take there own life..
so much so that i feel anyone who attempts suicide should NOT be resuscitated..

that being said,,if it were legal,i would have no problem taking there life for them..

at least then there wouldnt be that "attempted" word to fuck everything up.. it would be a sure thing..

 

Treatable in some cases, but in some, it's never curable.

 

I am still not going to kill someone. We all die eventually, but it's not for me to decide.

Your question was 'would I help'...No, I would not help someone do that. If you can't accomplish it yourself, you obviously aren't sure you want to do it.

(this doesn't include keeping vegetables on life support, I would pull the plug, and hope someone would do the same for me)

 

nuh uh... Not for them, for me. I dont see why i should have to live with that for the rest of my life when theyre perfectly capable of doing it themselves and plus theyre gonna die and be gone after anyway...

if they couldnt do it themselves, then maybe.. but it'd depend on who they are, and why they wanted it.

 

One of the better arguments I've heard.

 

No. But I also wouldn't pull the gun from their head.

I respect a person's right to make a choice, and I don't believe in getting in the way of that. And, in this case, if they want to go that badly, I'm willing to let them be at peace.

 

The reason I disagree with this is that suicide is actually very easy to accomplish on one's own.

And if people put themselves in situations in which intervention is a possibility, I'm inclined to think they are making a backwards plea for help.

To live.