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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)