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Suicide is not a personal right. Suicide is murder. "Thou shalt not kill." (Exodus 20:13). Suicide is an act of aggression. People who attempt suicide or commit suicide are actually dangerous people. They have directed their aggressive tendencies against themselves, but they very well could have killed someone else and often do before they kill themselves. People who attempt suicide or commit suicide are also mentally ill. They have lost the ability to think rationally or perhaps have been brainwashed into not thinking clearly.
Murder is both immoral and illegal. It is against the law. There should not even be a question as to whether suicide is a personal right. If we are to say that suicide is a personal right we are also saying that murder is a personal right.
Do you really think murder is a personal right?
The very worst kind of child abuse is attempted suicide by the parent or actual suicide by the parent according to family psychology. And think of the murder-suicide-famil y-suicides that often take place in our society. Suicide/murder can affect a whole family line. "...visiting the iniquity (sin) of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations..." (Exodus 20: 5).
No living person has the right to commit suicide. No living person has the right to commit murder.
I watched the movie, Million Dollar Baby. I thought it was the most incredibly stupid movie I ever saw. I didn't watch this movie on my own but while visiting a family member was induced to watch the movie, having absolutely no idea what the movie was about and thinking from the title that it was a nice movie.
People of our generation seem to be coming up with the most disgusting ideas imaginable and trying to force their idiotic ideas onto others.
Perhaps movies such as Million Dollar Baby are attempts by terrorists to get people to believe in their ideas of suicide and mass murder.
Million Dollar Baby was about a young woman boxer who became paraplegic after being hit in the boxing ring, who then committed suicide. I thought she was nothing but a coward. What a contrast to the real life legacy of Christopher Reeves who after becoming paraplegic lived out his days an excellent role model for other handicapped people by continuing his acting career and just sticking with it as long as he could. And there are so many other examples of people who really have very little to live for but keep going on and fighting to live.
We were born to live, not to die. Living is the most important thing we do in our life as humans.
Living is a responsibility. There is no question that to live we need to think and act responsibly to ourselves, our families, and our friends. How can suicide be considered a responsible act?
Suicide is a totally irresponsible, irrational and inhumane act. People who attempt suicide or actually do commit suicide are people whose minds are cluttered with thinking only of themselves in terms of themselves. Their thoughts don't seem to go beyond their own being. And the thoughts they think with regard to their own being are totally irrational.
It is all a matter of mindset. Whatever you put in your mind or allow someone else to put in your mind governs your thinking. There is so much in this world that captures the thought of people today in negative and irrational ways. Drugs and alcohol use doesn't help either. If you are going to fill your systems with poisons it will poison your thinking also and make you more capable of negative and unholy suggestions that can set you on a course of downward thoughts leading to the premature end of your life.
Remember that setting a precedent of Suicide is a Right is setting a precedent for Murder is a Right. Do we really want to do that?
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Part of me as a person wants to say, "No, suicide is not an individual's right." George Eastman, the founder of Kodak and inventor of roll film, left his suicide note saying, "My work is done. Why wait?" There are plenty of reasons why you shouldn't leave this world, George! However, the mind is often a more troubling place than this world, which can say a lot about how troubling the mind can be. The mind can torment one's daily life with horrible thoughts, process perceived actions as ritualistic messages, and, in general, make everyday life seem scary. People may laugh at that. Scary? One's thoughts?
Those people who do not see how the mind can be scary can not know the power the mind has over the body. They do not know how helpless a body can be left when psychosomatic symptoms plague the body's physical functions. They do not know the horrible experience of facing daily panic attacks caused by a thought that, although irrational to the one having the thought, is processed as true and evokes a horrible response both physically and mentally. These people who do not understand the power of the mind will say it is wrong to commit suicide. They will tell you to relax and stop taking life so seriously. I personally have been given professional advice to "try taking a warm shower" or another of my favorites was "try sipping some hot cocoa or tea." No joke. That was the advice given to me by professionally trained mental health workers. These professionals as well as the common person will see your situation as simply an undisciplined frame of mind. One simply needs to get their head out of the sand and into a more positive outlook.
So here I sit on a topic on which I am ambivalent. I cannot take my own life as I have given it value for the time. I have a mother who needs me more than I need to die. I have family who would be crushed. Finally, I still have a shred of hope that I am still of value to the greater society. Outside of that, only faith that there is hope keeps me tied to this world. When one loses faith and hope, then there is no point to living. Sometimes we need to live blindly in faith in search for hope that is not present. However, all suicides are usually long, hard fought journeys with no glimpses of hope and know faith that hope will ever shine its light upon one's face again. But there is an even more basic answer to the question, "Is suicide a personal choice?" "Is it is a personal right?"
That answer is the definition of a choice. We all have choices. We all have the right to make those choices. However, the consequences will tell us whether that choice is right or wrong. Can I as a person go and beat up little puppies at a pet shop? Sure. Should I expect to get a positive reaction? No. But, can anyone stop me before it is too late? Probably not. The only way to prevent a puppy attack is to be able to identify the person with a puppy problem. It is the same with suicide. Can I figure out and carry out a plan to kill myself if desired enough? Sure. Should I expect anyone to understand or agree with that decision? No. Can anyone stop me before it is too late? Probably not.
For one to really desire to take their life out of this world they must first feel engaged with it. So many times, the tormented mind is the one who has been marginalized by the "normal", mainstream mind or the mind society finds acceptable. The normal mind sees the suicidal mind as a warped mind. However, that is the farthest thing from the truth. Actually, a badly broken bone in the body and a suicidal brain are good equivalents to each other. The difference is that EVERYONE can get their mind around a broken bone where only a few can grasp the broken, hurting mind. Even the simplest mind knows what to do with a broken bone. You place it and let it heal, and maybe with a little physical therapy you'll be up and about in no time. The mind is also broken when it no longer has the will to live. However you cannot set a brain properly nor can it be controlled to think differently. It cannot be given predictable outcomes. There is no precedent for fixing a broken mind. There are no timeframes for recovery. It is a tireless effort for the one experiencing the mental pain as well as for those watching helplessly. Sometimes the mind simply will not heal!
So the answer to whether or not suicide is right or wrong is not the question here. The question is, "Is suicide someone's right?" Hopefully, the one attempting suicide is not known by others as it will have a ripple effect through out his/her community. On the other hand, hopefully the person committing suicide is known and loved by many to keep that person from thinking life is hopeless in the first place. Ultimately, the answer to this quetion is yes because once the trigger is pulled, the switch is flipped or the pills are popped it is many times to late to ask that person whether or not suicide was their right. Once dead, a suicide's victim's answer to whether is was their right or not is an emphatic, YES!
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