Quote from: Anubis on February 28, 2019, 06:07 PM
Our individual existence is meaningless and as such: If someone decides to not live, nobody has (should have) the right to prevent it. Even if the decision MIGHT have been wrong, when you are dead it doesn't matter.
my opinion on that topic based on my own experiences:
basically i think everyone should have the right to do with his life whatever he wants, also if he wants to end it.
but this needs a few exceptions:
i work in a psychiatric hospital, suicide is a returning topic in my work. in my case it's mostly ppl with heavy depression trying to kill themselves in a "good" phase (good enough to get out of lethargy) or schizophrenic ppl with hallucinations (for example: my voices urge me to jump out of the window). when my patients have a bad phase, they can't decide right and sometimes it's necessary to protect them from themselves. i've prevented myself a few suicides and i don't know a single person that was not thankful for that afterwards.
now outside of the psychatric hospital:
i think most of the suicides are a result of a maybe heavy but temporary personal problem and are executed in some sort of kneejerk reaction.
preventing that can never be wrong, cause there's always another solution.
if a person wants to suicide and thinks about it long enough and makes plans for it, the plan maybe should include other persons not being able to interrupt.
