Suicide: Honourable or Cowardly

What is your opinion on Suicide ? Do think it's an honourable act or a cowardly one.

Suicide has been done by people from many centuries, sometimes it's associated wih culture and other times with terrorism and everything in between.

What do think about about people who commit the act of taking their life ?

Terrorism: No.

People who are really depressed should be helped though

Well, if that's their culture... then so be it.

But if you're just commiting suicide as a way out, then you're a quitter!
And quitters disgust me :x

If end your life for your country then it's a sad thing.

An honourable suicide is one that extends your legacy... and makes the whole place ring with your name. To make yourself a name that is remembered for having a great legacy to begin with and just capping it all off without getting old and crap. Good for you. What's the point of living when you feel you've already lived.

I don't think you can really justify suicide, I mean if a kid has some serious mental problems and he believes suicide is the key to get away from these problems then I find that to be cowardly. Like someone stated, Suicide is a permanent solution to a problem which can eventusally be overcome in time.

I mean you know like in the Samurai culture it is considered honourable for one to commit seppuku but I believe i's just plain wrong, but that is just my opinion.

Terrorists are the worst of them all assuming that suicide bombing will take them into heaven. No where does it say in the Quran that if you kill people and do suicide you will go into heaven. These terrorists just give good muslims like me a bad name and that really makes me angry :x

I don't think it's either. It's just sad, unless it's like a suicide bomber in which case it's disgusting.SolidSnake35

I totally agree. Also how many times are you going to change your sig and avatar :P? The one you have know looks the best though.

I don't think you can really justify suicide, I mean if a kid has some serious mental problems and he believes suicide is the key to get away from these problems then I find that to be cowardly. Like someone stated, Suicide is a permanent solution to a problem which can eventusally be overcome in time.

I mean you know like in the Samurai culture it is considered honourable for one to commit seppuku but I believe i's just plain wrong, but that is just my opinion.

Terrorists are the worst of them all assuming that suicide bombing will take them into heaven. No where does it say in the Quran that if you kill people and do suicide you will go into heaven. These terrorists just give good muslims like me a bad name and that really makes me angry :x

Chilled_AB

Then again, every religion has a-holes like that. Muslims have bin Laden, Christians have people like Will Donahue, and Atheists have Richard Dawkins :P.

Depends on the situation. The soldier who sacrifices himself by jumping onto a grenade, saving his friends from the blast? Obviously, honorable.

But individuals whose depression drives them to suicide... I wouldn't call it cowardly, since for the most part, they're in legitimate mental anguish. It's just exceptionally sad that they didn't get the help they needed.

Depends, if someone kills themselves because they have to many bills to pay or something thats a coward.

But if someone has a terrible life,(bad child hood, social problems, relationship failures, drug abuse etc.) then comiting suicide will save themself from a lot of pain. Im an atheist btw, so either way your going to end up in the same place.

Most people will disagree because they will say it will get better, but in reality it doesnt get better for most people, it useally gets worse.

I wouldn't call it cowardly or honorable. Like someone said before, its just an act. Its sad though, but some peoples lives are that bad that they have no other way out.....

Niether

It depends on the person. It's just different... A drug addict that commits suicide, IMO, isn't viewed as honorable.

If one sacrafices himself, and that sacrafice happens to be an unlucky suicide, then they can be view as honorable.

Martyrdom=Honorable

Suicide=Cowardly

I think suicide bombing and Sati are both disgusting.

Besides those, I don't think suicide is either honourable or cowardly. I think if someone's unhappy enough to want to stop living, it's not cowardly - living with pain of any kind can be unbearable. My father suffered clinical depression for a few years after a tough divorce, and he tried to kill himself at least once. After what he went through, I am surprised and amazed that he coped with it all. I would not have thought less of him if he had killed himself.

Anyone who thinks suicide is cowardly just has no understanding of the immense weight emotional pain can have on a person. It's not just like feeling a little blue. Knowing that you have to live the rest of your life withoutyour life... starting again when you're dead inside... it just doesn't work.

But I don't think anyone should romanticise killing themselves, either. I don't see anything honourable in consciously deciding to kill yourself - making a distinction here between making a choice that results in one's death (as in, self-sacrifice - which is very honourable) and just killing yourself.

I don't think it's either. It's just sad, unless it's like a suicide bomber in which case it's disgusting.SolidSnake35