My two cents here.
The one category of people for whom I think that suicide us THE BEST option, so good in fact that they SHOULD choose it rather than the option of suffering eternally from their pain, are the chronic and incurable pain sufferers. If you think that your physical ailment is incurable, then I think that you should commit suicide, because if we look at it this way, your physical problem’s prognosis is already bad, but if you commit suicide then there’s a world full of other possibilities that could happen in your favour. You might go to heaven, be reborn in better physical situation, etc. Of course you could become a ghost, but you STILL have a chance!!!
So you have nothing to lose by committing suicide. In fact, that’s your optimum solution. God knows that’a what I’ll do if my physical problems prove to be incurable.
Don’t fear the process of death, embrace it. Death is our friend, our saviour. Remember the time when our parents used to take us to the doctor to get vaccinated and we feared the injection extremely, but it was ultimately for our own good only?
Think of death just like that. ?
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I have an incurable condition that causes apoptosis, eventual dementia and death. I think it’s related to two things; breathing oxygen, and not being a jellyfish. Does that qualify?
First reach that stage, then you are free to do what you want to.
Enjoy your days till then.
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madhurgupta I think you were doing pretty good till you got to the part more options 🙂
The option is to live or die, once your dead that’s it, back to non existence, your right about not fearing death, death is our friend, that’s mother natures way of ending our suffering.
Death won’t hurt you, dying might smarts a bit 🙂
I have seen ghosts and paranormal activity happen in front of my own eyes, not once but 5-7 times in my lifetime. If the spirits doing that stuff were real then it’s common sense that it can happen to any of us after dying and death may not necessarily lead to “non existence” of the soul.
Why is it okay if it’s an incurable physical ailment but not when it’s an incurable mental illness? Both are ‘treatable’ in their own right. Why is it okay for one to end their suffering and not another? You’re right, death is a friend, it is not something to fear. Life is what we should fear. It should not be anyone’s right to lock us up and shove pills down our throat (as adults) when we have a mental illness that is hard to manage/treat and is, of course, incurable.
Maybe you’re right. Mental problems suck too.
My point is that anybody should be allowed to die, but do it after carefully calculating the post death scenario, which is pretty easy given the options in front of a terminally ill guy or girl. If your mental illness is truly unrelenting, then I guess you qualify too.