Is committing suicide wrong 86 Articles

by Andrew K. Nelsen

The Three Suicides Although many associate suicide depression with mental illness or depression, I believe there are three types of suicides. Two of those deal with emotions - ones easily influenced by brain chemistry ...read more

by Kelly Robinson

I feel poet Merrit Malloy said it best when she wrote, "The Question of Suicide - Keep it a question, it is never the answer." When I was sixteen, my father was killed at Monsanto Chemicals in an accident that submerge...read more

by James Lynne

A person's body and life are uniquely his. The right to life or death should belong to the individual, not society. To determine the right-ness or wrong-ness of suicide first requires that we determine how we are to gauge...read more

by Mathew Davies

where I consider an ethical case for suicide. So what case would provide a strong argument an ethical suicide? I am reflecting on my experience in and out of western country, I must be clear on that. Before my suggesti...read more

by Michael Greaney

From a strict libertarian orientation, the individual is recognized as having inalienable rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. "Liberty" is often construed as "I may do what I like as long as I...read more

by Kenny Nines

My father died of lung cancer two years ago. I saw him two weeks before his passing, six feet two inches, one hundred ten pounds, unable to walk or take care of himself, barely able to speak. Death was coming for him; comi...read more

by Harry Windsor

The idea that suicide is wrong has a long history but is inherently linked to the idea of the sanctity of human life. It is because many people (often for religious reasons) have argued that human life is not something tha...read more

by KJM

Although suicide is now legal here in Canada, it always struck me as odd that it had ever been ruled illegal. It seems to me the last thing we should be doing with someone who has attempted to end their life, is worrying a...read more

by Can Tran

Is committing suicide wrong? There is really no distinct answer to that. There are many that will say that committing suicide is wrong and there are many that will say otherwise. For many reasons, I would not contemplate s...read more

by Matthew Ryan

When discussing suicide we should first discuss the possible reasons for committing suicide. These fall into two general groups. First, there are those people who suffer from some psychological disorder and wish to end t...read more

by John Graham

I believe that suicide is wrong, incredibly wrong, not because of some invented mythical god and not because of some man-made law, but simply because life is the best option around. If you thinking of suicide let me spe...read more

by Maureen Levey

I was going to throw myself under a tube train in London's rush hour one day after work. For weeks before, I would stand on the platform, near to the edge and get a feeling of vertigo. I thought that the depression I was i...read more

by Ruth Woodhouse

I had an uncle that committed suicide in middle age. His whole life had been a tragic waste. He had become an alcoholic when he must have been still a teenager. His mother had died when he was only 19. My mother, born s...read more

by Bryan Belrad

Is suicide wrong? As with any philosophical question (and Ethics is a discipline of Philosophy), that depends. Ethics is the thoughtful consideration of the rightness and wrongness values of a person's actions, or the ...read more

by Ross Williams

Over the years I've felt a number of different ways about suicide. At times I've thought it was just a cowardly thing to do, other times-in certain cases-I've thought it was the only release that could be attained. How I...read more

by Ms P. K. Styles

People who say committing suicide is wrong are the people who don't realize there are things so much worse than death. I bet there are people so afraid of dying that they would choose to live forever: even if it meant bein...read more

by C Davison

Suicide.... the cardinal sin. Is committing suicide wrong? Yes. Plain and simple. The gift of life is one that should never be taken so lightly. While it is true that many people struggle with depression, and the atte...read more

by Scott Smyth

Do we have the right to ask if suicide is wrong? This question had got to be looked at from two perspectives. One the one hand you have the people that suicide affects and on the other you have the person intending to comm...read more

by Lesley Mason

To answer any question about wrongness you first have to determine what you mean by "wrong"? Wrong in the sense of sinful, morally repugnant, against any right-thinking code of ethics? Or simply wrong in the sense of n...read more

by Elysium

Suicide is wrong no matter how you look at it. First of all, if you believe in god, suicide is an unforgiveable sin. Only God can decide when your life is over. After all, he is the one that gave you your life. Taking you...read more