Should suicide be a civil right?

Yes, I believe a human being should have the right to take his/her life.

Also, the mentally ill aren't strong, productive taxpayers and customers. When someone attempts suicide, they're placed in a psychiatric ward, costing taxpayers money because the truly mentally ill generally can't handle jobs to pay those medical bills. When I went through depression (well, I still am now, but not as severe), I wasn't working and didn't pay taxes. I lived with relatives and didn't spend much money. My medical bills for psychiatric treatment were ridden off by the hospital. It was only when I went on anti-depressant medication and began to heal that I was able to contribute to society. Many mentally ill people are not as fortunate and are actually draining society rather than contributing to it until they can recover or else commit suicide successfully.

My cousin was in and out of jail, and couldn't keep a job - he was one of those people that the "good, honest, hard-working taxpayers" complain about. He ended up commiting suicide. People can't have it both ways. They complain about the mentally ill draining society, yet they think it's wrong for someone who is mentally ill to kill himself. I believe that there are people who have been consumed by mental illness and won't recover to live halfway decent lives. I don't believe they should be prosecuted for attempting to end their lives. If they are successful, they're not prosecuted. They will spend time in a psychiatric facility. How will serving jail time and having a criminal record improve their mental state? It's not up to other people to decide what my life is worth - what I do with my life is my personal decision.

Not a chance.

If a person is free to live as they choose, then it follows they should be free to cease living when they choose.

I'd certainly put a right to suicide as more obvious and logical than a right to an abortion.

nope

Go ask the japs

don't ask, don't tell.

Yes. If you have the right to life, you have the right to decide when your life should end.

But in reality, suicide is a civil right. If you're intent on REALLY killing yourself, you will succeed the first time, and not have to try again (thereby making it physically impossible to prosecute you for attempting it).

Yes. I do think it should be a Civil Right.

possibly but as most people who commit suicide are suffering from a mental illness, then it could be argued that you are not of sound mind to make a decision rather like making a will, but from a practical point of view if a person is intent on commiting suicide, there is nothing that any authority can do or take action against, so in reality it is a basic right, by method of success

Technically speaking, suicide is a civil right. What kind of criminal punishment would come into play if a person successfully committed suicide? And if we made failure to successfully commit an attempted suicide legal, then would that mean the person wasn't mentally compromised in some way? Could we actually charge a person who fails to successfully commit suicide with attempted murder when we couldn't charge them with murder if the did succeed? But then again, would the person who attempted suicide have actually done so if not in the state of mind he or she was in at the time that it was attempted? Probably not, so if we try to punish that person, are we defending another personality...the personality who would benefit from stopping the attempt?

I guess the only benefit from legalizing the decision to commit suicide would be that insurance companies would still have to pay out.

In modern societies, suicide is viewed as a religious crime, and the condemnation is thus both absolute and universal.Therefore any attempt against his life suggests sacrilege.

Another thinking is Suicide springs from a reduced respect for individual life, and he who committs this act also deprives themselves of civil rights, so if you have no civil rights how can suicide be a civil right.

Isn't it already, although without being formally a right? Think about what's going on when someone tries to commit suicide. They either fail and end up getting counseled for whatever reason, or they succeed. In neither case do they go to jail for murder or attempted murder.
If suicide isn't a right, then how do you prevent it from happening? make everyone live in little bubbles? You certainly can't feed them, because they could intentionally choke. You can't let people drive because they might close the garage and start the car, or run into a tree. You can't even let people go for a stroll in the park because they might jump off a cliff or jump in the lake. You can't give people medicine because they might try to OD. Just sit in your room and look around and you'll find multiple ways to kill yourself, and if suicide isn't a right, then all of those things have to be taken away so as to deny you death, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness if you are so inclined to believe death achieves the latter two.

Absolutely. it causes nobody else any harm and it falls under the freedom to choose your path through your own life. No one should be forced to live a life that is causing them more pain then they can bear.

when u comit suicide ur robbing society of one of its members the state from one of its tax payers. companies from one of its customers. when the price of life is blurred, u might find ur greatest trouble is finding it again. i dont have the right to kill another man, i dont see how this life is any different 鈾?/div>

• 8 months ago