Suicide: Taking the Easy Way Out Life is full of ups and downs. There are times you will be happy, and in other times you will be sad. Life is just a roller coaster of emotions and feelings, but is giving up on the reality of life really a solution?
Have you ever encountered people who were almost close into killing themselves? Or have you contemplated on committing suicide yourself? Do you think that it will be ever reasonable that people can just take the easy way out of their problems and go end their lives on the spot? Will it be morally acceptable? If not why do people still do this when they know it is immoral? In our society, suicide is not often talked about, but it happens almost all the time. It affects more than thousands and
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Suicide for females is more shameful than male suicide and suicide for female often leads to court investigations. For Hindus all living things are very precious. In Sanskrit, suicide means “murdering one’s soul”, and they believe that that is sinful and very bad for karma. Suicide violates the code of ahimsa, and killing others is included in the violation of this code. Jayaram V has stated several reasons why suicide is immoral for Hindus. Firstly, we are created by God because we have a purpose that we have to fulfill while we are in earth and Hindus believe that no one else can fulfill our mission none other than us. Secondly, suicide is urged by dark and evil, and the misuse of free will of God. Lastly, in suicide is very immoral because it is harming your body which contains the soul and other divinities. When a person commits suicide they believed that they will neither go to heaven and hell, they will just go roam the earth until their right time comes and then they will go to hell to suffer a great consequence for committing …show more content…
They believe that people are not perfect and can make mistakes and the Lord will forgive those sins with full repentance. A perfect example is suicide bombing, other Muslims view this as a prophetic act, but most Muslim scholars view suicide as one of the greatest sin, and this includes suicide bombings. This is a verse from the Qur’an that forbids suicide;
“And do not kill yourselves, surely God is most merciful to you.” (Qur’an, Sura 4 (An-Nisa), ayat 29)
One of their Prophets, Bukhari, said that if one commits suicide he will continue on killing himself in the way he killed himself in earth in Hell forever. He also said that people who committed suicide are wounded, and they are forbidden to be in the afterlife Paradise. Thaabit ibn Dahhak, another prophet, said that on the day of Resurrection the one who commits suicide will be punished. Munajjid said that a person should wait, and be patient to seek Allah when he experiences hardships he can not handle anymore because when he commits suicide there will be more harder hardships and punishments from
Normal reactions to pain of loss, rejection, or disappointment and some which are more extreme reactions that can lead them in minor hopelessness, is teen suicide. When a teen commits suicide, everyone is affected. Family members, friends, teammates, neighbors, and sometimes even those who didn’t know the teen well enough might experience feelings of grief, confusion, guilt, and the sense that if only they had done something differently, the suicide could have been prevented.
The natural end of every human life is death. Some people, for reasons that have never been fully understood, choose to end their own lives. This is called suicide, which means literally ?self-killing?. For all the uncertainty that has surrounded the phenomenon of suicide, this assessment of the problem is probably as accurate as any. The individual seemingly hopeless conflict with the world, decides to end his or her existence in what amounts to a final assault against a society that can no longer be tolerated. In so doing, the person tries to obtain a final revenge on everything and everyone that has caused their feelings of depression.
There are two main threads of suicide. The social or institutional suicide and individual or
There are two main arguments offered by Christians, and those of other faiths, that advise against an individual seeking suicide, for whatever reason: Life is a gift form God, and that " each individual is its steward." Thus, only God can start a life, and only God should be allowed to end one. An individual who commits suicide is committing a sin. Christians believe that God does not send us any experience that we cannot handle.
Suicide is the only simple act that gives man absolute control of his life. Everyone from an early age contemplates and fantasizes with the idea of being able to end their life. Throughout time, this act has become more accepted, and easier to accomplish. Many people today believe there are reasons to justifiably end one’s own life. Though, through Christianity, it is found that not only is suicide wrong, but is the only simple act that will condemn one to hell.
There is no right to suicide in Islam at any time during life. Since we did not create ourselves we do not own our bodies. We are entrusted with them for care, nurture and safe-keeping. God is the owner and giver of life and His rights in giving and in taking are not to be violated. Attempting to kill oneself is a crime in Islam as well as a grave sin. The Qur'an says: "Do not kill (or destroy) yourselves, for verily Allah has been to you most Merciful" (Qur'an 4:29). To warn against suicide prophet Mohammad said: "Whoever kills himself with an iron instrument will be carrying it forever in hell. Whoever takes ...
Rosen, The Serious Suicide Attempt: Five Year Follow Up Study of 886 Patients, 235 J.A.M.A. 2105, 2105 (1976).
As long as there is pain and suffering there will always people choosing suicide as an answer. There has always been Request’s from patient to end their life back when medicine was first invented. While Euthanasia is very limited in the United States there have been patients that commit suicide on their own to end there suffering from depression. Studies have shown that 57 percent of physicians today have received some type of request from their patients for physician-assisted suicide. (Back et al)
The first type of violence is known as self directed. Suicide falls under this category. When one attempts and commits suicide, that person is directing harm towards them self. This type of violence is accepted in religions like the one that Islamic terrorists belong to. They believe that if they sacrifice themselves for their God, there will be virgins waiting for their arrival at the gates of heaven. In religions such as Christianity, though, suicide is considered to be going against what the Christian God wants. Christians believe that only God decides when your time is up, not you.
Typically, the utilitarian recital of morality provides no strong and fast answers about suicide - each case is separate rely on its consequences. It is disputable whether a person decease is legitimately reducing the amount of suffering and/or incremental the general prosperity.
In ancient history suicide was condemned to be a morally wrong sin. Plato claimed that suicide was shameful and its perpetrators should be buried in unmarked graves. When the Christian Prohibition came into play a man by the name of St. Thomas Aquinas defended the prohibition on three grounds. These are that suicide is contrary to natural self-love, whose aim is to preserve us. Suicide injures the community of which the individual is a part of. Suicide ...
Suicide is a much bigger problem than society will admit; the causes, methods, and prevention need to be discussed more openly. Committing suicide probably sounds like a foreign idea to most people, but to the people who think about it, they deal with it every day. More importantly, the question is what leads people to kill themselves? In general, most people do not want to actually kill themselves, even though many people joke about it on a daily basis. Being human, we all have a certain amount of will to live.
Many live due to the fear of death, many die due to the fear of living. Suicide is the act of ending one’s own life as a result of emotional and spiritual problems. Suicide, to some, is seen as a permanent escape. The Church itself argues against suicide. Life is borrowed and is not for one to just give away, God is the only one who can judge life. Suicide should not be committed because it infringes our relationship with others and ultimately God. Suicide is a selfish act all on its own.
Often times when I heard the word "suicidal" I was curiously caused the person to do it. Growing up, I heard that people decided to commit suicide was because they "wanted attention, they wanted the easy way out, they were weak, they couldn't handle life, etc." Personally, I have significant people in my life that have felt like they wanted to commit suicide. So, this topic honestly is a difficult, yet, emotional one to discuss.
Suicide is one of the most common death around the world. Life is just taking away very easy by someone or yourself. We have study the causes of someone killing themselves, but our human behavior can easy change and eventually make that deciduous. The causes and effects of suicide are depression, the past meaning your life before, and feeling unloved or lonely. The effects are the people that loved you are going to be depress, never reach those goals that you set for yourself, and people that loved you will feel the guilt.