<p>Should it ever be considered as a possible solution for your problems?</p>
<p>In short, no. There are far better ways to deal, and I think you know this. Why are you asking?</p>
<p>hmmm… my brain that follows society says no. and sometimes my heart says no too. but i can think of something that would make it a possible solution. of course, most people will think i’m a loony.</p>
<p>Even though I know suicide is wrong, I find something beautiful about it.</p>
<p>I’m sorry? Did you just say there is something beautiful about suicide? Only on CC…</p>
<p>Anyway to answer that question I have to say I am not sure. The vast majority of times someone considers suicide there are probably tonnes of better solutions. However, I can conceive of pretty extreme cases in which someone would probably be validated in committing suicide.</p>
<p>“Suicide: A permanent solution to a temporary problem.”</p>
<p>Eh, I came back from a wake today. The student committed suicide with a gun. He’s only a sophomore.</p>
<p>I dunno. I used to think nothing of suicidal thoughts, but now it’s just weird seeing that empty seat and thinking, “there used to be a kid there.”</p>
<p>Sure… but I doubt that you have the problem of:</p>
<p>1). Ensuring the future of humanity by flying a spaceship armed with nuclear weapons into an collision course asteroid capable of exterminating all life on the planet. </p>
<p>2). Staying behind while gravely wounded on a Goa’uld Hatak to set off a Naquadah device, ensuring that your teammates bring back an ancient artifact that would save the galaxy. </p>
<p>3). Being a larval host to a parasitic Xenomorph species, who will absorb your DNA and use your body to mutate into a evolved stage capable of better killing more of your friends. </p>
<p>4). You have the One Ring to stop Sauron the Dark lord, and you have arrived at the fires of Mordor. Due to the will of Sauron, you cannot cast the ring to destroy it and the future of Middle Earth depends on you. You can however, jump. </p>
<p>5). You are the Seventh and final Horcrux. </p>
<p>You win if you can guess the five Sci-fi/Fantasy TV/Movies these are from.</p>
<ol>
<li>Aliens</li>
<li>Lord of the Rings</li>
<li>Harry Potter</li>
</ol>
<p>I don’t know the others lol.</p>
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<li>Armageddon =]</li>
</ol>
<p>well… what would you do. if you had to die so someone you loved could live? or in a more controvertial setting. what if your suffering from terminal disease. and you know your suffering is straining everyone around you. and causing a lot of bad business to go on in your loved ones lifes. is suicide ok then? i think the question is, are we allowed to determine when we die. doesn’t that take away from a bigger power. but the catch is, what if the bigger power means for us to think we’re taking control but really in some twisted turn on events, we are actually playing along in a great game.</p>
<ol>
<li>Stargate SG-1?</li>
</ol>
<p>do it. 10char.</p>
<p>Stargate SG-1. Best. Show. Ever. (Until RDA left, but . . .)</p>
<p>I can’t say I’ve never personally thought of it–not in a totally serious manner, but in that, “If there was a high cliff near, I think I’d jump,” way. </p>
<p>But no, it’s never a good enough solution.</p>
<p>I was near the edge of the cliffs of Dover. Kinda scary in retrospect.</p>
<p>I believe suicide is the most selfish action a person can commit. It requires complete and total self-focus, with total disregard for the love of families/friends/whoever that may love the person dearly.</p>
<p>In most cases yes, but not all. </p>
<p>Suicide to avoid debt - mostly self-focused.
Suicide to save another life - not very self-focused
Suicide bombing - not self focused at all</p>
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<p>I hate this line so much. I can’t even describe how much I hate the selfish line. The majority of autopsies that come back from a suicide victim show signs of some sort of a mental illness. In one study, it stated that only 3% of people who committed suicide had been recieving adequate antidepressant therapy.</p>
<p>I agree with musicallylatin. When I was much younger, I tried to commit suicide. I was in such extreme emotional pain and had such a distorted view of life that I assumed that my death would be a favor to my friends and family. It’s important to realize that people who kill themselves or who try to kill themselves often feel that their actions are unselfish. If they have such little regard for themselves that they are trying to harm themselves it’s totally unrealistic to expect that they would be able to have an accurate level of concern for other people.</p>
<p>A former close friend of mine a woman almost 60, is still angry at her father who committed suicide when my friend was in college. Even though before he committed suicide, my friend’s dad was a very loving parent, my friend still views her dad’s actions as being very selfish. She can’t understand that he probably thought he was helping her when he killed himself.</p>
<p>Sadly, her bitterness and anger about his suicide permeates her life. She just can’t let go of the idea that he killed himself because he didn’t care about her. She also has never sought mental health treatment to help deal with her pain over his loss. She think she’s OK. She’s the angriest person whom I know, and her life is very sad.</p>
<p>It angers me so much when people talk about suicide in that flippant, “they’re so selfish” way. </p>
<p>I have a teacher who, for about a week, would say these ignorant comments about suicide. He’d just spout out the thoughts that came to his head with no thought of who was in the class. He joked about it, which was especially irratating. </p>
<p>I guess on some level I feel obligated to defend those who have committed suicide, because that was also a choice of my dad’s, but I went through the stage of complete anger also. </p>
<p>It’s like physical pain in a way. Your view gets so distorted when under intense pain that you can’t physically see straight. When people are under such emotional strain, they too, can’t “see straight”. </p>
<p>It’s not selfish what so ever in the majority of situations. They can’t comprehend the harm or the consequences that will occur from their action. </p>
<p>In the situation of my father, we believe (he left no note), he was just extremely lonely. My parents had gotten divorced prior to this, and I hardly ever saw him. In his view, I’m guessing, there was no one left to hurt. How could you make an impact on people that weren’t in your life? </p>
<p>Just as the other cases. You’re in so much pain which seperates you from the rest of humanity that you are virtually alone.</p>