Moral Issue Connected With Suicide

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Moral Issue Connected with Suicide


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FOOD OF THOUGHT

Are there conditions under which suicide is

morally justified, and if so, which conditions?,

Should other individuals attempt to preventsuicide?

Should the state criminalize suicide or

attempt to prevent it?

Is suicide ever rational or prudent?


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Different Angle Seeing Suicide

(a) Philosophers View from The Gang

of Three


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Suicide is always wrong because it

represents our releasingourselvesor our souls from aguard-post or our bodies the gods

have placed us in as a form ofpunishment !!!!!!!!!!


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Plato

that suicide is disgraceful and its perpetrators should be

buried in unmarked graves


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Aristotlesuicide is somehow a wrong to the state, thoughhe does not outline the nature of this wrong or thespecific vices that suicidal individual exhibit.


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Confucianism

suicide can be morally permissible, and

even praiseworthy


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Fish is what I want; bears palm is also what I want. If I

cannot have both, I would rather take bear's palm than

fish. (

). Yi is also what I want. If I cannot have both, I would

rather take yi than life

.


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IDEALISM


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Some thinkers have had positive, or at

least neutral, views on suicide.

Some philosophers are known

for their pessimism and philosophicalclarity view suicide as the greatest

comfort in life.


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Schopenhauer affirmed: "They

tell us that suicide is the greatest

act of cowardice... that suicide is

wrong; but when it is quite obvious

that there is nothing in the world to

which every man has a more

unassailable title than to his own

life and person !"


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asserts that the right to suicide is a

right of noninterference


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PHILOSOPHERANDPSYCHIATRIST

THOMAS SZASZ

Suicide is the most basic right of all. If

freedom is self-ownershipownership

over one's own life and body


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Buddhisms first precept is to refrain from the

destruction of life, including oneself, so suicide

is clearly seen as a negative form of action

Buddhism in its various forms affirms that,

while suicide as self-sacrifice may beappropriate for the person who is an arhat,

one who has attained enlightenment


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Buddhism does not condemn

suicide, but rather states, whatthe reasons for it are.

soul would repeat the suicide

action every 7 days until findanother die unnaturally then

reincarnate to a short and

unnaturally died life or when his

life end without suicide.


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..we are God's property and so suicide is a

wrong to God akin to theft or destruction of

property..

Aquinas (1273)


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suicide is a sin because: Suicide is contrary to natural self-love

Suicide injures the community

Suicide violates our duty to God


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committing suicide is considered a violationof the code of ahimsa and therefore equallysinful as murdering another.

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Hinduism accepts a man's right to end one's

life through the non-violent practice of fastingto death, termed Prayopavesa.


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Suicide as one of the greatest sins andutterly detrimental to one's spiritual journey.

Most Muslim scholars and clerics consider

suicide forbidden, including suicide bombings


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He who commits suicide by throttling shall

keep on throttling himself in the Hell Fire

(forever) and he who commits suicide bystabbing himself shall keep on stabbing himself

in the Hell-Fire."

"And do not kill yourselves, surely God is most

Merciful to you."

(Extract from Al-Quran)

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