Is Suicide Ever the Answer?

akeseh · Post by **akeseh** » 23 Aug 2017, 02:10

Suicide can never be the answer. It will rather send a persons soul straight to hell. Life is made up of choices. If situations are unfavorable today, tomorrow it will be better. Suicide is just a deception from the devil and not the solution.

kdstrack · Post by **kdstrack** » 23 Aug 2017, 17:23

I do not believe in suicide. Most psychologists agree that suicide is a selfish answer to one's problems. It may seem like an answer to end the person's pain, but it does not take into account the feelings of the people who remain. Many people who commit suicide do so to avoid facing the consequences of their actions or some difficulty they are experiencing in their lives. A suicide also admits an unbelief in consequences on the other side. A suicide closes the door to this life but is the person sure about what comes next??

Manali_DC · Post by **Manali_DC** » 24 Aug 2017, 01:12

Suicide can never be the answer!! Apart from the moral and religious implications of commiting suicide, one must also consider the agony of the people one leaves behind!! No matter how hopeless the problem, ending one's life is so final!!

mumoscar · Post by **mumoscar** » 24 Aug 2017, 08:43

I may not know anyone in particular, but I have heard of victims of suicide. To me suicide is not the answer but a sign of defeat.

Rochelle Torres · Post by **Rochelle Torres** » 24 Aug 2017, 09:26

Sometimes suicide is the only sense of control that a person has left over their own life. Depression and other sorts of mental illness do have the ability to make a person suffer to a day to day basis, even to the point where they feel little to no enjoyment at all anymore. It's harder for these types of people to make it than the average joe. When their mental health starts to collapse no one comes runnin with the safety net, they come runnin with threats, shut off notices, and repo's. Sad but true. Our current society doesnt just create the mentally ill like dirt, it creates the mentally ill in general. And if that isnt enough they usually make the illness fester with religion, politics and psycho-active drugs. How can a dysfunctional world dictate how a person should end their life? In any rational world or society, the very first suicide would have been a major concern. You ever notice when people kill themselves their loved ones say "I should of done something" but yet when that person was alive all they ever did was treat them like a burden. Yeah. This "life is a precious gift" BS is for the birds. I'll be a suicide some day and I by no means think it's selfish of me, I just know my limits.

Donnavila Marie01 · Post by **Donnavila Marie01** » 25 Aug 2017, 06:26

Rochelle Torres wrote:Sometimes suicide is the only sense of control that a person has left over their own life. Depression and other sorts of mental illness do have the ability to make a person suffer to a day to day basis, even to the point where they feel little to no enjoyment at all anymore. It's harder for these types of people to make it than the average joe. When their mental health starts to collapse no one comes runnin with the safety net, they come runnin with threats, shut off notices, and repo's. Sad but true. Our current society doesnt just create the mentally ill like dirt, it creates the mentally ill in general. And if that isnt enough they usually make the illness fester with religion, politics and psycho-active drugs. How can a dysfunctional world dictate how a person should end their life? In any rational world or society, the very first suicide would have been a major concern. You ever notice when people kill themselves their loved ones say "I should of done something" but yet when that person was alive all they ever did was treat them like a burden. Yeah. This "life is a precious gift" BS is for the birds. I'll be a suicide some day and I by no means think it's selfish of me, I just know my limits.

You have a point. At the end of the day, we have to remind our selves that we can not just judge those people committing suicide.

Joy Boudreau · Post by **Joy Boudreau** » 25 Aug 2017, 09:07

Donnavila Marie01 wrote:
Rochelle Torres wrote:Sometimes suicide is the only sense of control that a person has left over their own life. Depression and other sorts of mental illness do have the ability to make a person suffer to a day to day basis, even to the point where they feel little to no enjoyment at all anymore. It's harder for these types of people to make it than the average joe. When their mental health starts to collapse no one comes runnin with the safety net, they come runnin with threats, shut off notices, and repo's. Sad but true. Our current society doesnt just create the mentally ill like dirt, it creates the mentally ill in general. And if that isnt enough they usually make the illness fester with religion, politics and psycho-active drugs. How can a dysfunctional world dictate how a person should end their life? In any rational world or society, the very first suicide would have been a major concern. You ever notice when people kill themselves their loved ones say "I should of done something" but yet when that person was alive all they ever did was treat them like a burden. Yeah. This "life is a precious gift" BS is for the birds. I'll be a suicide some day and I by no means think it's selfish of me, I just know my limits.
You have a point. At the end of the day, we have to remind our selves that we can not just judge those people committing suicide.

I never judge people who commit suicide. I just feel so sad that there are people who live with such devastating hopelessness that they feel death is the only answer. I understand, have been there. Currently taking meds to help - they are not perfect, but so much better I don't know how I ever made it without them. I send you hugs.

meteku4 · Post by **meteku4** » 25 Aug 2017, 11:51

I don't know anyone personally who has committed suicide, but I think that suicide is not the option we should consider when confronted with life's affliction. Sometimes, the solutions to our problems may just be inches away, and patience would've made a whole lot of difference. We must also learn to trust in God.

Atabon Della · Post by **Atabon Della** » 25 Aug 2017, 12:57

An obvious no. Ending one's life is never the answer. In fact it is the beginning of eternal trouble because ending your life is the surest means of finding yourself in hell.

Zacheous Njoki · Post by **Zacheous Njoki** » 25 Aug 2017, 15:31

It only brings more pain and grief to the people left behind. .so it's absolutely not the answer.

KlareAllison · Post by **KlareAllison** » 25 Aug 2017, 18:50

Using suicide as an escape is not only morally wrong but also leaves a legacy of stigma which the relations of the deceased will be burdened by for a long time. However, individuals who enjoy good physical, mental and psychological health hardly resort to suicide.

Aimy · Post by **Aimy** » 26 Aug 2017, 05:00

One of my cousins tried to commit suicide, but thanks be to God, he survived.

Ashiyya Tariq · Post by **Ashiyya Tariq** » 26 Aug 2017, 07:48

No its absolutely wrong approach towards life . suicide is not a solution rather a problem in itself. Your wrong decision makes your family to suffer a lot .it is cowardice to end your life instead of facing those temporary hardships. B/c life never remains the same.Ups and downs are part of life.

Gregory Chileshe · Post by **Gregory Chileshe** » 26 Aug 2017, 09:42

How can suicide be the Answer when you have gone and left things you have died for pending. It is not an answer,it can only be an answer to the cowards of life, to failures who think there is no hope when there is. People that commit such are just haunted by demons they fail to disobey. Face things as they are, patience always makes someone win. Believe in God who brought you here on earth that there was no mistake and you can make it,and that is if you also have confidence in yourself. Dont let that confidence die, it is what fuels hope.

tamdlyte · Post by **tamdlyte** » 26 Aug 2017, 15:38

Steph K wrote:...suicide is mostly the consequence of mental illness. Suicidal ideation is often a symptom of more severe cases. There is a narrative that suicide happens when a person just doesn't have the moral fortitude to deal with a difficult situation. That a more positive frame of mind would have changed everything. The reality is that the person was probably struggling with a mental illness, with their brain chemicals unbalanced in a way that made "just think positively" not possible. They needed medical intervention, not a pep talk. This is why it has become the journalistic standard to say "died by suicide" and not "committed suicide". It's not a moral failure or a crime. It is a disease that ended tragically.

This... for the most part. We don't accuse a cancer victim (Or some other terminal illness victim) for getting a horrible disease but we stigmatize and blame a suicide victim for succumbing to their illness about how "cowardly" and "selfish" they are... It's not right, I tell you.

But this only covers the random suicide involving a relatively physically healthy individual, not the "Mercy Suicides" for a debilitating, painful, terminal illness which should be totally up to the individual sufferer with how much actual torture they can suffer without going crazy.

And I'm sure their are some individuals imprisoned in some hostile environment (in a fire, under water, in an airplane crash at the top of the Himalayas, as a slave being tortured, maimed and raped) in which there is no hope for survival.

Yes, yes, maybe if they had held out a little while longer, they could have been saved... but my point is, it is not our right to judge. It's our job to makes sure, as a society, that we support all of our citizen's well-being so that suicide is never needed as an option. You cannot say, "They are cowardly and selfish," when you, or society, or whoever, didn't do their absolute most to help them, in particular and for society as a whole. And by help, on a small, everyday scale that everyone should be doing anyways, I mean being nice to people, not being a road rage driver, the jerk boss that uses his/her status to step on the workers below him/her, not being that customer that makes the life of the receptionist or store clerk miserable, seeing when it's the little things that will make the day of some random person... smiling! This is not just "happy thoughts"... This is truly considering what your fellow man needs and not being so short sighted and selfish about your own existence... and judgmental and accusatory. This is what is going to save so many more people with suicidal tendencies than if you just accuse them of selfishness and cowardliness... That's never going to fix anything and until that is done, we can never escape the dark specter of that last ill-conceived action.