I'm about to take up a position which
is going to be deamed by some,
if not all, as a
terrible stand to take. As a matter of fact, if anyone were
to agree with me
on ths subject, I'd be surprsed. For you see, rather than
arguing from the
postion of suicide being an unjustified and inane way to
die, I shall
argue the other point. That being suicide does have its merits.
Before you people start screaming, hear
my case out. Most people
argue that
nothing justifies the taking of someone's life. Yet what makes
life so valuable?
Why do people cling to it so? All we consist of is a bunch
of carbon atoms,
bound together to form an exoskeleton, organs, and tissue.
In this light,
there really is not much to life. Out of the 5 billion who
inhabit the
planet, very few of them shall emerge to be true world leaders.
The rest will
just lead a mediocre life of work and little play.
The taking of ones life can be argued
from a populistic view as well.
It makes little
sense to preserve life in an over populated world. True, one
less person here
on there will not make a large dent. Yet if everyone who
attempts or had
attempted suicide were not stopped, the impact would be
noticed.
Another popular argument for stoppers,
people who want to prevent
suicide, is that
nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this? They
do not have to
put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does everyday.
How could they
possibly know what the potential suicide victim feels. Just
as a severely
burned victim may wish to be allowed to die in peace, the
suicide victim
wishes the same. To die in peace with no argument from
others.
The argument of "look at the
people you will hurt" also does not
hold. Imidiate
family members will be the only ones to suffer any great pain.
Friends will go
on with thier lives and in time forget about the death.
Imidiate family
too will forget the loss in time. Although it will take most
considerably
longer for them than it will for friends.
Finaly, the argument of suicide being
selfish is hard to grasp.
Selfish in whose
eyes? Certainly not the eyes of the victim. To them, they
consider it
selfish of others to try and preserve their life. Again, the
argument of the
stoppers don't know what the victim has to go through. They
are not the ones
enduring the pain.
Religious people also crop up into the
debate. Catholics claim that
for someone to
committ suicide sneds their soul straight to Hell. In many
religions,
suicide is considered taboo. However why is this so? Why should it
be looked upon as
disgracefull, when some religions claim death the be the
reward for people
after their time on earth is done.
Suicide is an issue which should be
examined at by all angles. Not
just from the
angle that it is "wrong". End of debate. Rather it should be
looked at from
the point of view that "yes" for some people, they should be
allowed to die in
peace.
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