Poll: Can suicide be rational?

[Kaijj]

Only if it's during something like a zombie apocalypse and its suicide or zombification.

 

[Supernaut565]

Personally I think suicide is for quitters and people who are to lazy to even try to get their life back on track.

 

[Kiutu]

If you are being tortured horrifically, yeah.

 

[ify_]

Yes.

Terminal cancer patient.
Chronic pain sufferer.
Dementia patient.

There are times when suicide is the best option...possibly even noble.

 

[Doug]

Hmm...
No.

Rational person:
"My life is awful."
Solution:
"Where's the liquor cabinet?"

Insane person:
"My life is awful."
Solution:
"Let's end it all on a low note."
Logic:
"Were you just not going to consult me on this?"

Yes it can.
Terminately ill person:
"Crap, I have 4 weeks to live, 2 of which will be horribly painful"
Solution:
"Live to the full over the first 2 weeks, then kill myself"

 

[hotacidbath]

I think it can be rational if someone has a terminal illness and would rather die at their own hand rather than in a slow and painful manner. Other than that I don't think it can be a fully rational decision.

 

[slipknot4]

It's only rational the the one that is suicidal, for everyone else, it's not.
So i voted yes, i guess that you have to look from the eyes of the miserable people

 

[lwm3398]

look at it this way. you split into 2 people. one has a gun,one's suicidal. one with gun kills you both. the corpses become you again.

what i'm getting at is that it's the taking of an innocent life. it's murder. it's sin. it's a one way first class ticket to hell.

 

[Hazy]

Hmm...
No.

Rational person:
"My life is awful."
Solution:
"Where's the liquor cabinet?"

Insane person:
"My life is awful."
Solution:
"Let's end it all on a low note."
Logic:
"Were you just not going to consult me on this?"

*Downs whiskey botlle* Alcoholism FTW!!!!!

So you're the one who's been stealing my booze!

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

It is possible but for most situations... no.

I had suicidal thoughts before but not because I was depressed but because I was bored and had this annoying voice in the back of my mind saying "Go ahead and kill yourself. It will finally answer the question of what happens after death."

I dismissed it by telling myself that suicide is for weak quitters and I was neither weak or a quitter.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Nope completley irrational, easy to fall pray to for everyone but irrational. I dont regard that suicide is always selfish line though there was a beating in glasgow x months back in which this guys girlfriend covered his body when they would not stop kicking him, was very stupid and they both died due to it but selfless at the same time.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

look at it this way. you split into 2 people. one has a gun,one's suicidal. one with gun kills you both. the corpses become you again.

what i'm getting at is that it's the taking of an innocent life. it's murder. it's sin. it's a one way first class ticket to hell.

Not everyone believes in that though.

 

[timmytom1]

Hmm...
No.

Rational person:
"My life is awful."
Solution:
"Where's the liquor cabinet?"

Insane person:
"My life is awful."
Solution:
"Let's end it all on a low note."
Logic:
"Were you just not going to consult me on this?"

*Downs whiskey botlle* Alcoholism FTW!!!!!

So you're the one who's been stealing my booze!

Ermmmm *falls over* it was the errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm cookie monster!!!!!!!!! , yeah it was the cookie monster the damn theif!!!!

 

[lwm3398]

Rational person:
I've lost my house, my job, my family, there's nowhere for me to go. *Kills self*

It's possible.

in that case. get a job you lazy waste of oxygen! take depression pills if that's what you need to do! get your life on track! suicide is the taking of a LIFE! it's MURDER!

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

SNIP

or you could go to colledge to better yourself and get a high paying job

I kindly direct you to this nice political cartoon.

Spoiler: Cartoon