Why is suicide considered selfish?
338506
Because you're not considering the consequences of your suicide on other people. Suicidal people tend to get so wrapped up in their own problems (i.e. Everyone hates ME, *I* am never going to succeed, *I* can't take this anymore) that they fail to consider how anyone else feels, they just assume that their pain is the only thing that matters. Imagine how a mother would feel when her Child kills themself, the child may have thought that the mother hated them or whatever, but all mother's love their children. The suicide of their child is like the child turning round and saying: "You failed, you didn't love me enough, you didn't keep me safe nor make me happy. Now I don't care about you, so I've killed myself to spite you"\nThe only person who really benefits from the suicide is the person who kills themselves, because they don't have to deal with the massive emotional trauma they just inflicted on anyone whoever loved or cared about them.
518719
i've answered a similar question to this before and my answer is still the same...if we took the time to listen to people in this day and age instead of being obsessed with our own lives and happenings then maybe there wouldnt be the need to post as many suicide questions or as many suicidal people out there. The human race as a whole is just becoming selfish.
298193
Even if someone were to perform a self-sacrifice for someone else, with the exception of suicide, you could look at it as selfish, as it would still reap benefits for the sacrificer: that good feeling you get from helping other people.\n\nOther than self-sacrificial acts, there is always some benefit, even if whatever is being done is being done for the benefit of someone else. Say for instance, I took you out for ice cream. It would make you feel good, but I would get some ice cream also, so it COULD be considered selfish.\n\nI suppose not.
478764
Well, suicide is never a great option in my honest opinion, but here is a great list of why one wouldn't want to kill themselves.\n\nhttp://www.wingsoffiresurvivors.com/reasons.htm
268390
Some people feel so hopeless that they feel it is better to be gone than to have to face their problems.  For them, their problems are over and they no longer have to deal with them.  For the people around them, yes, they will have to deal with it but the person that commits suicide is beyond being concerned about that both before and after the suicide.
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its none of the above. its called being selfish morons.a lil\nword of wisdom,some people you call your friends maybe in \nfact jus the opposite.try this,sit back and see how many will come to your aid when in need! thats when you'll find\nout whos your true friend........ciao
1148668
I have always said that if my illness ever takes me to a point where I am suffering unduly, where my dignity and self-worth are  compromised, I would want someone to take my life if I couldn't do it myself. Because this isn't legal,  I wouldn't expect anyone to do this for me but it is how I feel on the subject.\n\nWe do it for animals, so that they don't suffer, and I strongly believe in these circumstances euthanasia is thr only humane way.
220225
Maybe you're growing up!  It shows maturity to care for others, and not be so selfish that you only care for yourself.  The way you've written that sounds like you've been hurt, and if that's the case,  I feel for you!  Please try to take life one day at a time, and realize that things usually get better...
625603
Maybe you can check into the new information that suicide attempts are actually caused by illness.  There was a report in the science news that it is actually a chemical imbalance that causes a person to want to kill themselves. You could research that as opposed to people thinking it is a moral issue and that people are being selfish by killing themselves.  Speaking from experience..  I had a suicide attempt from being very depressed from unrelived chronic pain and depression caused from that.  It was not due to selfishness.  I just wanted out of the pain and could find no other way even tho I was taking medication and going to a psychologists.  You could also do a thesis on unrelieved chronic pain and suicide.  There is  a ton of info about this and it is a horrible thing to have.  Good luck hon
87659
Well I really don't care for either choice myself and as for what would other people do, my guess is there is more incest in this world than suicides and the suicides end up being the ones that were abused.\nYou really didn't ask what I would do or any person specifically, so that is why I have answered the question this way.
1045187
The reason people say suicide is cowardly, because that means that a person has given up. \nHe/she has quit. \nThey didn't have the courage to face up to the problems and issues in their life, so they merely chose to end it.\nThat's why its cowardly.
576583
some people are selfish and do not worry about others. they are only worried about advancing themselves in life.
1147162
I dont know but I think people in general frown upon suicide because at one point we have all thought about it but we choose to fight instead.
372497
No it's not right ! It's because people are selfish and only think about themselves .\n\nAngel
733396
only if you want to have mind prolems, risk dying , risk having brain damage   , looking in fatique all the time, becoming dependent on it dare i go on \nyour choice  your life  others will suffer your selfishness when you become ill\nwja
386242
personally, i think that some forms of mental illness can come and go pretty quickly. i think that you have to be in some state of mental illness to want to commit suicide, and the same goes for killing someone (other than self-defense kind of thing). if one is in extreme, chronic pain, then i think that's the only circumstance in which one can commit suicide without being mentally ill. it's important to remember that even depression is a mental illness. depression is a chemical imbalance in one's brain, and that's not different than some conventional sicknesses (e.g. stress can cause a chemical imbalance in one's stomach which can lead to physical sickness). i think that too many of us fear the stigma of the phrase "mental illness" and therefore play down things that are truly mental illnesses.
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I fully beleive that if someone wants to die, they should be able to do it. The governemnt's not going to stop me if I really want to commit suicide. Pain should be able to be stopped -- one way or another. Death is as good a way as others. \nBy the way...I really wish doctors actually did no harm.