Really?
Are people who are depressed able to weigh up all their options? Are people who see no end to their isolation and loneliness able to weigh up all their options? Are people living with pain able to think rationally? Take away a persons pain through better pain management and I suspect they'd be better able to 'weigh up' their options.
Bob, you think another persons pain is none of anyone's business?
We are not individual islands living in a vast ocean. All living creatures are connected. We, as the human race, have the ability to help other human beings. It's called compassion.
Of course another person's pain is my business and I'll do what I can. As a collective we can change the problems people suffer so they can see life as a gift, so they can feel they belong, so they can feel they have something to contribute.
If someone was about to jump off a bridge, would you really say to them "ok I'm going to let you jump, I'll even watch, because it's your life and it's none of my business".
I agree with Crikey and Bob. I understand what you are saying Cat but not everyone's lives are meaningful. In a perfect world all that you have said above would be fine. But, it's not a perfect world and some people struggle through each day just trying to survive. People get tired of the struggle for whatever reason. And loneliness, to me, is just as much a reason as a debilitating disease. Being lonely and not having loved ones in your life is extremely painful and difficult. And not everyone wants strangers in their lives. Not everyone sees life as a gift. Just my take on it.
Like She-ele said. I truly believe it is the person's decision and has nothing to do with anyone else.
In a perfect world all that you have said above would be fine. But, it's not a perfect world and some people struggle through each day just trying to survive. People get tired of the struggle for whatever reason. And loneliness, to me, is just as much a reason as a debilitating disease.
That would mean homeless people, long term unemployed (unhappy because they can't find work & earn a reasonable income), addicts who can't kick their habit and live a fairly rough life, intellectually disabled people who can't live independently in society, people with diseases such as muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, would fit in the criteria above - people struggling through each day trying to survive - should they all take the rational suicide option? no matter what age they are?
That's not what I said. I said that to be lonely is just as much a reason as any other. Again, it's up to the individual. Some people take their own lives because of money worries. Some because their hearts have been broken. Some because they see no reason to go on. Each and every one of us would have our own reasons. You imply that I'm saying anyone with issues would fit the criteria. It's not what I said at all.
