[Stu]

If I can change ...

... and you can change ...



THEN MAYBE WE CAN ALL CHANGE!

[Shaun]

now I look like I think people should commit suicide

[Ninastar]

jesus christ.

[Mr XcX]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

jesus christ.

Please elaborate.

[joeysteele]

Many people who commit suicide don't really deep down want to die. Often it's some massive pressure in life that has pushed them over the edge completely and they cannot see any other way out.
The problem can be one or more of many reasons.

It's sad to think so many people feel they really have no one or nowhere to turn when they fall that deep into hopelessness.
They are not thinking straight,often it's a cry for help that goes wrong or its impulsive with no rational thought given to the consequences.

IF someone is intent on killing themselves then they will but I feel as a fellow Human being,if I knew someone had tried to before or was about to go about killing themselves I would want to try to talk them out of it,whether that was someone close to me or someone I had just met.

Life is precious, I would want to do all in my power to try to stop someone ending their life via suicide.

Those with cancer and the euthanasia argument are different,that's a whole new debate.
I just wish there were more people and more help for anyone feeling really suicidal to go to and get objective,'confidential' help and support to help them through whatever difficulties or trauma has brought them to feel that way.

[Mr XcX]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Many people who commit suicide don't really deep down want to die. Often it's some massive pressure in life that has pushed them over the edge completely and they cannot see any other way out.
The problem can be one or more of many reasons.

It's sad to think so many people feel they really have no one or nowhere to turn when they fall that deep into hopelessness.
They are not thinking straight,often it's a cry for help that goes wrong or its impulsive with no rational thought given to the consequences.

IF someone is intent on killing themselves then they will but I feel as a fellow Human being,if I knew someone had tried to before or was about to go about killing themselves I would want to try to talk them out of it,whether that was someone close to me or someone I had just met.

Life is precious, I would want to do all in my power to try to stop someone ending their life via suicide.

Those with cancer and the euthanasia argument are different,that's a whole new debate.
I just wish there were more people and more help for anyone feeling really suicidal to go to and get objective,'confidential' help and support to help them through whatever difficulties or trauma has brought them to feel that way.

I agree. Another sensible view.

[Ninastar]

I think it depends on the circumstances

[bbfan1991]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

I think it depends on the circumstances

Indeed, I think some people should seek help but then some reach the point especially if it's an illness that is terminal that they can't cope anymore and become depressed, isolated etc that they want an assisted suicide before their inevitable death.

Felt sorry for a woman that decided to have an assisted death abroad and before she could go ahead had to fight the courts to promise that her husband doesn't get charged for helping her and that it is entirely her own decision to do it.

[Angus]

If I ever feel that MY life is no longer worth living for whatever reason, (which would be nobody's business but my own), the last thing on my mind would be the approval or permission of total strangers who have no right to judge me since they are not walking in my shoes. I would do what I have always done in my life, make my own decisions based on my own circumstances.

I see no point in suffering a long, lingering, painful existence (whether physical and/or emotional), to satisfy others' ideas on the sanctity of life. Quality of life is subjective to the individual, and it is not anyone else's right or responsibility to decide what constitutes a meaningful existence for me.

[Smithy]

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Smithy

He's very close.

[Niall]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

He's very close.

[Mr XcX]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

He's very close.

I have done nothing wrong, all I have done is express my opinion.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Mr XcX

I have done nothing wrong, all I have done is express my opinion.

you basically accused chewys dad/family of not looking after his mother properly, you said that my friends family didn't look after her properly either. How the ****** do you know?

[Benjamin]

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