/sci/ - Science & Math

It's complicated, I'm glad I went to a mental hospital. If we just said "let him kill himself I'd be missing out." I think we can come to a middle ground where you should at least talk to a professional.

There are two main reasons.

The first is religious dogmatism. Lets just disregard that one because it's bullshit.

The more important one is that a desire for suicide is almost always a result of mental illness. With this in mind, we can consider suicide as just another way a person can die as a result of illness. We try to prevent people from dying this way for the same reason we prevent people from dying of the flu or cancer. We make suicide illegal because it makes it much easier to prevent in a practical way.

>>11205687
>suicide is illegal
What are the police gonna do? Arrest my body and read it the miranda rights?

>>11205714
Not about you, faggot. Helping someone commit a crime is a crime itself, if suicide were legal then helping people suicide would be legal too

Suicide violates the 6th commandment, and thus is a mortal sin, one that is irremediable as death accompanies it, meaning the miserable man who commits it dies in the state of mortal sin. Because mortal sin is an insult offered to an infinite God, the punishment for it is justly infinite.

>It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself, for three reasons. First, because everything naturally loves itself, the result being that everything naturally keeps itself in being, and resists corruptions so far as it can. Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself. Hence suicide is always a mortal sin, as being contrary to the natural law and to charity. Secondly, because every part, as such, belongs to the whole. Now every man is part of the community, and so, as such, he belongs to the community. Hence by killing himself he injures the community, as the Philosopher declares (Ethic. v, 11). Thirdly, because life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God, even as he who kills another's slave, sins against that slave's master, and as he who usurps to himself judgment of a matter not entrusted to him. For it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life, according to Deuteronomy 32:39, "I will kill and I will make to live."

>>11205777
>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

>>11205904
Non-sequitur.

>>11205777
Sick trips, even if I disagree with your reasoning.

>>11205714
Part of the reason is so police can legally restrain someone who's suicidal

>>11205687
>The more important one is that a desire for suicide is almost always a result of mental illness.
as of yet we have no way to fix peoples brains
let em die

>>11206339
Suicide is not illegal in the US. The police have the legal right to intervene when someone's life is in danger. Stop repeating this retarded meme.

>>11205777

None of these are particularly convincing. The first one is meaningless conjecture, you could just as easily say that everything naturally hates itself because it ends in total corruption, its Teleological destination. The second one isn't even an argument, something belonging to a whole has no bearing on its, or the whole's, presence or absence being good or bad. The third one is not as awful but, ironically, if one should not take it upon himself to die then one should neither take it upon himself to live, according to the text. Death by self-imposed dehydration, exposure, starvation, etc. would be quite commendable then, no?

Stick to spermposting.

>>11205630
>regardless of age
Sorry buddy, if that were allowed, spergs like yourself would constantly be killing themselves over stupid things like girls rejecting them. Almost all suicide attempt survivors regret it, why should it be allowed?

>>11206339
So you think the reason suicide is illegal is just so cops can put handcuffs on you? You think they get enjoyment from wrangling tards like you?

>>11205677
That's clear.
I watched a documentary yesterday about people with cancer etc living at a care facility just waiting to die. And I'm thinking what the hell is wrong with these people allowing this shit. One guy said he was in pain and saw no point in continuing his life, why don't they just let him die painlessly.

>>11207466
Because the people who can change those laws are not the ones who are in pain. It’s that simple. There is a point of sadism in trying to prevent people with untreatable diseases to stop their suffering.

>>11205630
If you have a terminal and/or untreatable serious illness, then euthaniasia ought to be allowed. In fact polls show majority support for this even in many conservative, religious countries. Legal euthanasia is one of those laws where there is no real argument against it.

However, allowing healthy people to just kill themselves at will is much more questionable. I am not totally opposed to the idea, but it is an ethical minefield.

>>11207501
>However, allowing healthy people to just kill themselves at will is much more questionable. I am not totally opposed to the idea, but it is an ethical minefield.
But, are you healthy if you wanna off yourself? And if you are, why do you care if it’s legal or not? Legality only has any effect on people because of fear of consequences.

>>11207158
Aquinas wrote that buddy, not me. He also retropreemptively refuted your counterpoints in anticipation of them.

>>11207514
>Aquinas wrote that

And?

>>11205630
because it shows other people that their lives are worthless, and they get pissed with people kill themselves and make their lives meaningless because life is meaningless.
>>11205687
>The more important one..
>BLAH BLAH BLAH MORE RELIGIOUS DOGMATISM
when will they learn?
>>11205777
based numbers
but I'm already fucking burning in hell, might as well be tortured for eternity, it honestly sounds fucking less as shit than this.
>>11206343
advancement is what is killing men.
what is the meaning in this futile paracosm, generated as a delusion to contribute to the pocket of someone else in an endless hell of mediocrity and baselessness
>>11207466
$$$I don't know, and no one may ever know$$$
>>11207501
>but it is an ethical minefield.
retarded and made up, and holds zero significance to making decisions.
You preventing someone from killing themselves is unethical, and if you say that ethics and moral are subjective/relative then you are admitting it's bullshit that was invented by controlling cock whores.
>>11207508
people will just do it anyways. these faggots will literally allow the killing of human fetus, but when it comes to an adult making an adult decision that life is fuckgin meaningless and no one likes being here they go full sperg, as if I just said their birthday party was gay and I want to leave.
It's not their fucking choice what I do, that's the most fucked up shit I can possibly think off. Someone wants to die more than anything but they are force to be alive, and drugged to live as a fucking slave.
That is worse than death.
The fucking bourgeois are mad we don't want to play their shitty game anymore.
totality is inert.

>>11205630
The one single most absolute freedom someone can have is the right and ability to kill themselves on their own terms

I can't wait to be 100+ and die to a morphine overdose listening to some of the most brutal death metal I can think of

>>11205630
Because you are not allowed to kill state property.

I support it. We should bully black people into taking the pill

>>11205687
We make it illegal, or at least highly stigmatized via 'mental illness', b/c doing so allows the majority of the populace to avoid contemplating the notion that life sucks so bad that lots of people *legitimately* want out.

Admitting that to be the case, admitting the legitimacy of the desire, eventually makes the notion of parenthood morally suspect.
"What kind of person foists another into a miserable existence?" isn't a question most parents want to answer. Since most people want kids, society isn't about to put up with questions that lead to answers like 'taking a roll of the dice on quality of your kid's life is immoral, parents are monsters for doing so."

>>11205777
I like religious retards barking about things they don't understand. If "injuring the community" is a mortal sin, then tax dodging is one, but somehow you don't see churches and priests agree to that. On the contrary, these scumbags argue they should pay no taxes. If taking life is mortal sin, wars should be illegal. Yet, the same religious shitstains argue wars and death penalty is a-ok. Weird that...