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textualdeviance) wrote2003-10-10 03:29 pm
textualdeviance) wrote2003-10-10 03:29 pm
Hmm
Just a philosophical ponderance...
Why is it that most people accept the idea of suicide to end uncontrollable physical pain, but not to end uncontrollable emotional pain?
No, that doesn't mean I'm suicidal, btw. Far from it. In a good mood today. It was just a question that came up from reading something somewhere.
I guess I've never thought of death, in and of itself, as being a bad thing. The circumstances surrounding a death are very often awful. A too-soon end, or a death from violence or something horribly painful or frightening. But death itself isn't necessarily bad, I think. I've often looked at people who have really awful lives, for various reasons, and can perfectly understand the concept of euthanasia, or suicide-as-euthanasia in some cases.
Hmmm.
Why is it that most people accept the idea of suicide to end uncontrollable physical pain, but not to end uncontrollable emotional pain?
No, that doesn't mean I'm suicidal, btw. Far from it. In a good mood today. It was just a question that came up from reading something somewhere.
I guess I've never thought of death, in and of itself, as being a bad thing. The circumstances surrounding a death are very often awful. A too-soon end, or a death from violence or something horribly painful or frightening. But death itself isn't necessarily bad, I think. I've often looked at people who have really awful lives, for various reasons, and can perfectly understand the concept of euthanasia, or suicide-as-euthanasia in some cases.
Hmmm.
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Personally, as someone who has attempted suicide and then gone on to be genuinely happy and at peace, I think it's because there's not actually such a thing as terminal depression - there's help to be sought via counselling, drugs, etc. Euthanasia for those in physical pain is just speeding up an inevitable event, not causing that event to happen where otherwise it would not.
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