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Is suicide cowardly?

is suicide a cowardly act?


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Murder suicide in all of its forms is most definitely a cowardly act.
Ok, here's a fair example. Though I would make a distinction even here. If it's a pact between adults, i.e. two elderly people in poor health and they're just "done"... I'm ok with that.

But the times where a guy wants to off himself and he takes his wife and/or kids with him... that's cowardly.
 
Fear of confronting trials in their life or repercussions or responsibility?

I think suicide is more of a selfish act than anything.
Of course its selfish. Is it any less selfish to try and make a person live when they don't want to? At that point, who are you really doing it for?
 
True. Why don't we make different situations? For example, if someone was surrounded by enemies would suicide be cowardly?

On one hand, he can be preventing enemies from interrogating and getting evidence from him. On the other hand however (should one look at it this way), by committing suicide, he did not fight for his cause by trying to defeat the enemy.

what enemy ? you should stop playing Playstation games.suicide is a serious issue to discuss and it doesnt deserve such a trolling thread
 
Bold: Nope, I don't think that. However I cannot speak of what I don't know. Can you believe that absolutely no Christian or some other Abrahamic theists or atheist hasn't or won't commit suicide? (I know I wouldn't believe it) If not then its perfectly acceptable to use them as an example. Don't ya think?
Well it seemed like you were speaking in absolutes.
 
People who commit suicide, clearly have issues. Can you provide an example when it is cowardly?

Why do they have issues? Because they want to do something that others are emotionally opposed to?
 
Why do they have issues? Because they want to do something that others are emotionally opposed to?

No. Because the natural state, in fact the basis of evolution is survival and perpetuation, not self destruction.
 
what enemy ? you should stop playing Playstation games.suicide is a serious issue to discuss and it doesnt deserve such a trolling thread

Any war scenario typically.

English courses are good for learning how to comprehend implications in sentences.

Why don't you try a Turkish debate forum or something?
 
Any war scenario typically.

English courses are good for learning how to comprehend implications in sentences.

Why don't you try a Turkish debate forum or something?

no personal attack
 
It's their life, where do you think it's any of your business what they do?

I am allowed to think whatever the hell I want... and judge whoever I want... you certainty do as well... don't pretend you don't judge others actions, Mr. Highhorse... I am not promoting that the government should find their soul and send them to hell or posthumously but them in jail for it.

I've seen enough on how suicides destroy families and loved ones... it's a very selfish act to take the easy way out. The circumstances... obviously matter though... but I would say most suicides are selfish...
 
I am allowed to think whatever the hell I want... and judge whoever I want... you certainty do as well... don't pretend you don't judge others actions, Mr. Highhorse... I am not promoting that the government should find their soul and send them to hell or posthumously but them in jail for it.

I've seen enough on how suicides destroy families and loved ones... it's a very selfish act to take the easy way out. The circumstances... obviously matter though... but I would say most suicides are selfish...

Wow, I point out that it's all a bunch of fear and here someone is just screaming in anger. Right again, I guess. :roll:
 
Wow, I point out that it's all a bunch of fear and here someone is just screaming in anger. Right again, I guess. :roll:

I am hardly screaming nor in anger...sorry it came of that way :3oops:
 
I am hardly screaming nor in anger...sorry it came of that way :3oops:

It's an emotional response, I don't blame you for it, I'm just pointing it out. People fear death, therefore they rally against those who do not.
 
Sex as a bargaining chip.:shock:

Expecting it is just as much a "bargaining" aspect as earning it. Sorry, just because you're partnered up doesn't mean you can "expect" sex whenever you want it.
 
It depends on why someone kills themselves.
 
It's an emotional response, I don't blame you for it, I'm just pointing it out. People fear death, therefore they rally against those who do not.

I do fear death... but do people not have a responsibility to others they coexist with? Friends and family and children?
 
For me, it makes no more sense to apply such a label as it does to attribute some measure of heroism to those who never consider it. What with every possible potentiality of time and circumstance, accounting for all the vagaries of emotion and human frailty, the suggestion of a baseline is surely specious. I don't generally subscribe to the concept of cowardice, it representing nothing more substantial than deviation from an impossible ideal. Were the sum total of humanity not so irreducible, we couldn't be human at all and our species could never have evolved. Where one would posit any such correlation, it would behoove the claimant to make the case for constants hitherto unguessed at.

Silly claim to make really, unless you're a ****ing idiot.
 
cool... maybe suicide should just be accepted as one of the way people choose to go huh?

Suicide booths in futurama? Just pop in a quarter and enter then thing, it'll take care of it.

lol, I find it very strange people love to empathize with people killing themselves, it's as if they want it to become something popular...

Absolutely, let's have suicide booths, wtf they are. The empathy is with whatever pain or agony, real or imagined, that causes a person to decide no input or output is better than one more day of input. You claim you've been down and out, but you don't type like someone who hasn't any understanding or empathy for what some people have to live with.
 
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I think it would be insane for someone to condemn someone when you have no earthly idea what their circumstances are.

Whynot at first condemn until the circumstance reveals itself?

No one wants to be encouraging suicide.... or do we?
 
Expecting it is just as much a "bargaining" aspect as earning it. Sorry, just because you're partnered up doesn't mean you can "expect" sex whenever you want it.

Your partner has to "earn" your sex. If so, I find that hilarity.
 
Whynot at first condemn until the circumstance reveals itself?

No one wants to be encouraging suicide.... or do we?

Because I think whatever the surrounding circumstance is we shouldn't be judging someone that killed themselves.

If we want to discourage suicide (which we should) we should focus on providing care and helping the loved ones identify the signs. I don't think classifying it as cowardly really discourages it
 
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