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Is suicide cowardly?

is suicide a cowardly act?


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In your honest opinion, do you believe suicide to be a cowardly act?

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It can be, but it's also rather arrogant of others to assume it to be without knowing the circumstances.
 
It can be, but it's also rather arrogant of others to assume it to be without knowing the circumstances.

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.
 
Nope. It is what it is and it's none of your business unless you're the one doing it.
 
I imagine it has to take a lot of guts to take your own life. Whether it's right or wrong, it's certainly not cowardly.
 
In your honest opinion, do you believe suicide to be a cowardly act?

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It really depends on why you commit suicide. I'm going to speak generally here but please note that this doesn't necessarily apply to EVERYONE. There are always exceptions.

If its due to some chemical imbalance in the brain or always in extreme pain or due to a disease/virus that is 100% going to kill you then most definitely not. If its because you think that the world is out to get you and because nothing ever goes your way then yes it is.
 
In your honest opinion, do you believe suicide to be a cowardly act?

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No. I think others who try to make the suffering and suicide of others about them are the ones who are cowardly, actually. Not to mention self-centered.

I don't understand what good people think it will do to guilt the suicidal.
 
My big brother killed himself...he was no coward...he just could not handle the world with the emotional abilities his brain provided him.
 
I'd say no for the most part
 
If it is an otherwise healthy individual who has just given up? Yes it is a cowards way out. The problem is, is there a mental disorder there? In that case no.

So it depends.
 
It can be, but it's also rather arrogant of others to assume it to be without knowing the circumstances.

People who commit suicide, clearly have issues. Can you provide an example when it is cowardly?
 
People who commit suicide, clearly have issues. Can you provide an example when it is cowardly?

Fear of confronting trials in their life or repercussions or responsibility?

I think suicide is more of a selfish act than anything.
 
Fear of confronting trials in their life or repercussions or responsibility?

I think suicide is more of a selfish act than anything.

Regulator didn't peg a bad construction job and and as a result several people died. Wrote a letter admitting it was his fault before killing himself. Some commentators said he was a coward, but I was just impressed that anybody in this society was capable of taking moral responsibility for something.
 
Fear of confronting trials in their life or repercussions or responsibility?

I think suicide is more of a selfish act than anything.

There are people with physiological troubles that you don't have. Well presumably anyway.
 
In your honest opinion, do you believe suicide to be a cowardly act?

Do you believe having children is a stupid thing to do?

Answer to questions like these usually comes down to "depends on individual circumstances."

But even then, my answer is no, I don't think cowardice enters into suicide in almost any case. Suicide and cowardice go together like oil and water. Cowardice is a pejorative and increasingly archaic term to describe pathological anxiety, which manifests in self-preservation to an unhealthy degree such that the person is afraid to do anything decisive.
 
Fear of confronting trials in their life or repercussions or responsibility?

In those cases it seems to me to be more of an "I know I'm guilty and will spend most of the rest of my days in prison, so I'm just going to call it quits right now." That's not fear so much as refusal to go through society's protocols for dealing with them.

I think suicide is more of a selfish act than anything.

Its result is a complete elimination of the self, so I don't see how it could ever be construed as "selfish."
 
I personally believe anyone that commits suicide is insane.
 
Depends- I would say if you can spare yourself a life of pain, paralysis or torture then its acceptable.
 
I don't think it's cowardly. I used to, and then I realized that, hey - it's not all about me and how I look at things. People have things going on in their lives that they are not mentally equipped to deal with, and no one - me or anyone else - should allow their hubris to get in the way of somebody who is really sick, and needs help.

You can't judge someone else's life until you've walked in their shoes.
 
There have been accounts of a spouse committing suicide after their long term partner has died and really can't call them coward.

Then there are people out there 100 pounds overweight puffing on a cig who are doing a slow suicide , are they cowards?
 
There are very few circumstances where suicide is cowardly. I.e killing yourself because you don't want to face the people you have screwed over through deceit and manipulation for your own gain. Killing yourself in this case would be a cowardly way of dealing with the wrongs you committed.

I think Hitler's ( Godwin's Law Ding Ding Ding) suicide was a cowards way out - he couldn't face the music.

Aside from that, whether or not it is right or wrong, suicide takes bravery to jump into that great unknown knowing you will never come back.
 
Cowardice is allowing fear to prevent you from doing the right thing.

Suicide is only cowardly when you have obligations it prevents you from carrying out. Nobody is obligated to live for life's sake alone.
 
A better topic would be is it ever cowardly or selfish to *not* suicide

Since attempts usually fail and are often quite painfully, it must take some amount of courage
 
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Aside from that, whether or not it is right or wrong, suicide takes bravery to jump into that great unknown knowing you will never come back.

I don't think it takes any bravery at all if you believe that there is no heaven/hell but instead simply oblivion. Oblivion means that there is no feeling. No punishment. No nothing. That's not bravery. It's simply an escape which is what cowards want. (note: this is ONLY talking about those that do commit suicide for no "valid" reason.)

I'd be more inclined to believe in the "bravery" bit if they were religious and a part of a religion that forbids suicide. At least then they are "risking" going to hell or whatever equivalent their religion holds.
 
People who commit suicide, clearly have issues. Can you provide an example when it is cowardly?

This is 100% wrong. I know somebody (a friend I knew since I was 12) who had been fighting cancer (lung) for 4 years. Did it all to try and fight it and was given word he'd die in 6 months. He didn't want to die in a hospital or at home in hospice. He asked/wanted to do have one last hurrah so his family went on a 15 day trip around the world to places he wanted to see (I paid for it all, it was least I could do).. He want to go and see Giza, Paris, the Alps, and watch the sunset in the Ring of Kerry and at the end of last day.. watching the sunset he took his life with his family by his side by overdosing on morphine. It was quiet and as he planned his death. He didn't want to suffer and he didn't want the excess medical bills to cripple his family. So it was quiet brave of him. He knew how many days he had left and didn't get cold feet.
 
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