Philosophy Suicide does not have to be bad.
September 10 was the "World Suicide Prevention Day". Well, at least once a day, from which you can be sure that he was not invented by the greeting card industry. Still, the question I asked myself the first time I heard about that day was: suicide prevention day? Why? Or, perhaps more appropriate to the topic, why the hangman? Why should one prevent suicides?
I will not demand that there be a "World Day of Suicide" or that suicide should be actively encouraged and encouraged. But I believe that the suicide and the people who decide to take this step (from the skyscraper edge) should no longer be left with the stigma of failure and despair.
The most uplifting response when people hear of someone's suicide is the reproachful and often self-pitying question, "How could he do that to us?" First, the heart of every human being is full of secrets, so that one can of each judgment, as long as the data subject does not disclose their motives. Second, nobody has a duty to stay alive. Since nobody asked us if we wanted to be born, we do not even have a commitment to our parents, let alone friends, colleagues or society.
The only people who can justifiably say that someone who thinks about ending their lives is obligated to them are their children. After all, one was responsible for their birth and usually responsible. I would also argue that such a duty does not even exist with the partner. After all, any partnership can be ended by leaving the other one. And what is suicide other than an unambiguous adieu?
Suicide is associated too quickly with failure and interpreted as an act of abandonment. One can imagine many reasons: The feeling of having had a fulfilled life, whose experiences can no longer be increased. Curiosity about the process itself and about a possible life after death (for this reason, religious people should actually be very keen on suicide). Exaggerated adventure. Or to set a fan.
How do you associate suicide with failure without being able to explain what makes up the purpose of life? As long as there is no convincing, universally valid theory of the meaning of life, leaving this life is no worse choice than staying.
Suicide looks less negative or scary when we remember that we're all going to die. Without exception. Some of us will die in our sleep, of which I am not sure if it is as peaceful as it is usually portrayed. Others among us will suffer a terrible illness. Or they will be run over by a truck and bleed to death. Others will drown. Or step on a landmine, burn up in a fire or starve to death.
Sorry for the drama, but perhaps you can see in the light of this list, that it can be a fairly reasonable desire to choose the time, place and nature of his death itself.
If the societal stigma of suicide were eliminated or at least reduced, those interested might be able to do it in a more peaceful and controlled manner. My hope is that then fewer people will jump in front of trains or blow up their kitchen.
This leads us to the legal status of suicide. The whole affair would be cleaner and less disruptive (especially for rail traffic), if it were legal to help people implement their desire to end their own lives at their own discretion. In particular, I find it unfair and unethical that sick people in many states are denied any such support, while every healthy person can buy a weapon (in the US) or a motorcycle (in the rest of the world) as a tool of action. Old, frail and sick people are thus significantly disadvantaged compared to young and healthy people.
Suicide is a decision that you can be sure you will not regret afterwards. And there are not many things in life that you can say that about.
When I hear of someone's suicide, my first reaction is that of admiration. I admire the courage (because as logical as it may be, it is not easy) and the determination to make the ultimate decision in life itself. We discuss all possible personal freedoms; why should we exclude this ultimate freedom whose exercise does not violate the rights of any other human being?