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Would you kill yourself

Under what circumstances would YOU commit suicide?

  • I would do it for my country

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • I would do it for my family

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • I would do it for humanity

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • I would do it for my beloved

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • I would do it to ease mother Earth

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I would do it when I am in a deadend

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • I would't do it, it's a crime/sin

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • I would do it for fun

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 8 38.1%

  • Dunno

    Votes: 3 14.3%
  • Total voters
    21
Canell said:
Because I am a libertarian. ;)
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So? You should keep in mind that maybe some people have firsthand experience with such things, and you should strive to treat the subject matter with a little bit more sensitivity IMO, as should some of the posters.
 
Dragonfly said:
Fortunately? What the **** does that mean????
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You can't figure out something that simple? Explanation: most people who have a passing thought of suicide as a solution, hopefully realize that their problem might work itself out and not need such a final answer. Would you rather that everyone believe it's the only way out or is it fortunate that dying is not the best option?
 
If I were going to kill myself, it would have already happened some years ago. So, no, I don't see myself ever committing suicide.


Now, would I sacrifice my life, taking a stand I knew was going to get me killed, for the sake of others' survival? Under the right circumstances, absolutely. In fact I sincerely hope this is how I will die, buying an opportunity for others I care for to live. This would be a good death.
 
I would never, because I don't want a one-way ticket to hell.
 
Canell said:
Suicide = take your own life (bullet, pills, jump from the top, poison, you name it)

So, I don't think I messed up with the definition. The motive for a suicide can be, apparently, different but suicide means only one thing - take your own life.
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I have yet to met the person who would take his own life for his country... only sacrifice his life for his country because others take it away from him... because he puts his life in danger to protect others.

It makes no sense.
 
I would not kill myself unless i know beyond all doubt I was going to become chronically ill and the result would be I would become a vegetable.
 
Canell said:
So, I was wondering, under what circumstances one would commit suicide?
Do you think suicide can be justified or is a unconditional taboo?
Well?

;)

P.S. Option No. 7 to be read "wouldn't". Sorry for the typo.
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I don't know if it can be justified or not, but at this point in my life I would say that I would never consider it. I love living.
 
wolfman24 said:
I would not kill myself unless i know beyond all doubt I was going to become chronically ill and the result would be I would become a vegetable.
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I have stage 3 Parkinson's Disease....won't likely become a vegetable mentally, just unable to care for myself, altho dimentia is more likely to occur with PD than not....search YouTube for stage 5 or end stage Parkinson's. There is no set time for each stage, I could live a long time in stage 4, which is tolerable. But if stage 5 is inevitable and I can see it coming, I hope to be able to take myself out.
 
Mathematician said:
I don't believe hell on earth even compares. Suicide is for the weak hearted.
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There is no hell, so it doesn't matter....
on the odd chance that there is a hell, it will be occupied by only a few unrepentant souls....like Charlie Sheen....:2razz:
 
I can't say with certainty that I would ever be able to bring myself to take my own life, but one circumstance where I'd probably seriously consider it would be living with severe (level of 9-10 on a 1-10 scale), refractory/intractable pain after having exhausted all my options for treatment, both traditional and alternative.
 
I might do it if I was terminally ill and in extreme pain but otherwise, no.
 
UtahBill said:
on the odd chance that there is a hell, it will be occupied by only a few unrepentant souls....like Charlie Sheen....:2razz:
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I loled. :lamo
 
That is a very complicated question, and it would depend entirely on serious underlying complications.
Off the top of my head, I would say no, because my only experiences with suicide are that they are extreme answers to solvable problems, and I have been on the other end of suicides (family or friend of suicides) enough to know how much pain they cause to those who love you.
Otoh, if it was something that was demanded of me, in order to save the life of someone I love, it would be something that I would honestly consider, although the specific circumstances would determine my course of action.
 
I would do it, and I would do it for me, because it is the ultimate selfish act.
 
I would only consider it if I am over 70 and I had a terminal illness. I would rather choose when I go instead of waiting out the time doctors guess I would go. I may beat the odds, but at that age, I wouldn't be worried about it.
 
If it took me dying for my daughter to live then sure.
 
My father is dying right now and is in constant agony. He would never consider suicide although he wishes for death to come soon. He is 100 years old.

My Mother chose to die when she was 93 and diagnosed with ovarian cancer. A surgery would have saved her life since she was otherwise amazingly spry and active. She refused the surgery because she wanted to die. Once she quit driving, she couldn't stand being needy. So she sort-of committed suicide and was totally upbeat about it.

I have a suicide kit at all times. I have no intention of dying a painful death inn a hospital. I will leave here on my own terms. Hopefully, I won't need to make that decision.
 
I would sacrifice myself for my family or for my beloved. I would put my life on the line for my mates. As Goshin said... it is a good death.

I would only commit suicide if it were the only honorable option left to me. As long as I can live my life with some semblance of honor, I will cling to it; as soon as an honorable life is no longer an option, I will choose an honorable death in its place.
 
JohnWOlin said:
If it took me dying for my daughter to live then sure.
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what if your daughter wasnt around, and you were alone surrounded by 666 rabid guinea pigs, with an m9 with one 15 round magazine and one in the chamber.
 
ChrisL said:
But you never know what the future holds. I can understand how devastated one would feel in that situation, but people DO survive it and go on to live their lives. People are MUCH tougher than they give themselves credit for.
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No way. I've seen my grandmother survive her son and husband and even though sehe has 3 more children to live for, she is a shell of her former self. My English/hebrew teacher lost her son and is notibly depressed/missing a part of herself. My aunt just lost her husband to cancer and weighs about 90 lbs and is literally wasting away in front of her 3 kids. My friend from college lost her daughter after a placental abruption at 32 weeks along and her boyfriend was murdered shortly thereafter. She holds a "birthday" party for her daughter every year and borders on psychotic when she speaks of her child. She has pictures of herself holding her dead baby in the hospital...

People only survive that by the shere biological drive to live. In every other way these people are not themselves and I wouldn't put myself through that kiind of transformation unless I had one surviving child to whom I could cling.
 
Chelsea said:
No way. I've seen my grandmother survive her son and husband and even though sehe has 3 more children to live for, she is a shell of her former self. My English/hebrew teacher lost her son and is notibly depressed/missing a part of herself. My aunt just lost her husband to cancer and weighs about 90 lbs and is literally wasting away in front of her 3 kids. My friend from college lost her daughter after a placental abruption at 32 weeks along and her boyfriend was murdered shortly thereafter. She holds a "birthday" party for her daughter every year and borders on psychotic when she speaks of her child. She has pictures of herself holding her dead baby in the hospital...

People only survive that by the shere biological drive to live. In every other way these people are not themselves and I wouldn't put myself through that kiind of transformation unless I had one surviving child to whom I could cling.
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Totally untrue. I know from firsthand experience. Plenty of people go through what you mentioned above and WORSE, and they DO find happiness in their lives and go on. It takes a lot but it can certainly be done. It happens every day.
 
ChrisL said:
Totally untrue. I know from firsthand experience. Plenty of people go through what you mentioned above and WORSE, and they DO find happiness in their lives and go on. It takes a lot but it can certainly be done. It happens every day.
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I know its possible to move on, but I wouldn't want to . And no one is the same after losing a child. I could only imagine the emptiness and pain omeone woukld suffer everyday. Now if I lost a child or all but one I would have my remaining child/children to keep going for. But just to exist for the sake of existence seems futile.
 
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