Tell that to the person who has to find your body next to the note. Cut you down from the rafters or wash the blood from the carpet. If you die of natural causes, its "natural", you didnt impose a burden intentionally. If you leave a rotting corpse in your bedroom next to your note and an empty pill bottle for your loved one to find and clean up after. YOU INTENTIONALLY DID THAT TO THEM!
Dont tell me there is no difference between dying and suicide.
How do you honestly know that?
Based on what's been found in the note and what was known about the INDIVIDUAL, that may actually be the case; they wanted a "loved one" to find the body. I would agree, that's a pretty messed up thing to do but is that really grounds to tell somene else what they can and can not do with
their life?
To say that's the case in every instance is untrue. Consider entertaining the thought that someone may just want to die and the thought of "who" finds them is irrelevent to them.
Don't misinterpret my point. What you say is indeed a horrible thing, but try to disregard emotion for a moment and apply logic to the subject.
Consider this:
If you accept that no one has ownership of their life, then that opens a much more horrible door into other areas that could rob you further of additional rights.
Most people that "try" to kill themselves are "asking" for help. Most that succeed are not. They simply do not want to live any longer. Just as it is their
right to make that decision, it is also their
right to suffer the consequences of that decision. That ideal, in its purest essence, is freedom....is liberty.
If you want to argue that there is harm caused to others in excess of any other death, I would be glad to debate that point further. I do not accept; however, the idea of allowing another to have power over my life. The governmnet does too much of that already IMHO.
When I was depressed: I DID NOT WANT HELP! I wanted to die! I just wanted it to end, for the pain to be OVER! But I did get help... and now I'm glad I did. I teach kids at a karate summer camp, I take care of my animals, I help my friends through their tough times. I love life! I love the God who gave it to me! People who have a mental illness are ILL... they need TREATMENT. That's how it goes.
My mother regrets trying to end her life. She, too, has learned to love life. Don't tell us that people should be left alone to do as they please. We were ILL... we weren't thinking straight... and now that we are, we're glad we got help.
I'm glad things worked out the way you wanted and you are now happy.
Apply the same logic to your current situation though. What if someone decided that you're not thinking straight now? What if
they decided
your current actions were inappropriate even though you feel no harm is being caused to anyone else through those actions?
For instance, teaching kids martial arts in their opinion is training them to be killers and that is simply unacceptable; having those kids do such violent things! Kids should be kids! That means playing in the sandbox, not fighting....how AWFUL!
So they rally others to their way of thinking, lobby their law-makers, and pass a law that not only can you not teach martial arts to kids, but it is illegal to practice martial arts individually because it is too violent.
Sound silly? Far-fetched? It's happened before. Where do you draw the line where individual rights are concerned?
A life is a valuable thing, but at the end of the day I feel it should belong to the one that owns it.
...simply attempting to present a different perspective beyond the emotional realm.
