Is it wrong to commit suicide?
If I had one more chance, this is what I’d tell the love of my life: \”Your suicide is wrong. You will break my heart and crush my soul. You will cause me grief and pain beyond any kind of torture. I will spend forever wondering what I should have done differently. I will wonder if you are watching me suffer, and are powerless to do anything. I will wonder if you spend eternity regretting this ultimate wrong that cannot ever be undone. You will realize that your problems and pain were not insurmountable, and wish you had chosen to live and find ways to make life better for both of us, rather than ending the life of the person I feel like I take every breath with.\” Anyone who comtemplates suicide needs to visualize the person who loves them most in the world being stabbed in the heart repeatedly by a dull, rusty knife. If they can do this without flinching, I suppose they could look forward to an eternity without regret. But, if this picture is unsettling to them, they had better stop
No, suicide is not wrong. It is just one more path to the inevitable death all humans eventually experience. Our own death is not a moral issue. It is just death. Having been born does not obligate us to keep living. Our birth is biological happenstance, but we have a lot more control over how our life ends. It is possible some may mourn the successful suicide, but wouldn’t they also mourn if the person died unexpectedly in a car accident or from a sudden heart attack? Is living a risky and unhealthy life that shortens life span any different than suicide? No, it just takes longer and burdens the caretakers. Suicide is not about weakness or character. It is about pain. Unbearable, relentless pain. Everyone experiences pain differently and it seems damned arrogant to say a person’s pain is not valid. It is ignorant to say that another’s pain is temporary. If it’s not you, then you don’t know that. Not all pain can be alleviated, not all problems can be fixed. We have only one thing that
