Suicide: A Civil Right?

funiai · Suicide: A Civil Right?

Included is an article to shed some light on the subject.

http://www.antipsychiatry.org/suicide.htm

In most countries, it is variably legal or illegal to drink, smoke, to do things as extreme as beat one's spouse, to behead a stranger in public for disgracing a woman, or to carry loaded firearms in plain sight. In this country especially, the 'home of the free', we can carry our crosses out and call all the slander we want at anyone and any time, so long as they're gay or carry some alternative religion. People can be arrested for holding many alternative viewpoints-- Such as the simple belief in Communism. We have the rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness', to a certain extent, but with all these ways we're apparently allowed to decide our own fates, we aren't allowed the simple right to bring them about. Suicide is a crime here. Why?

It is often argued that someone who wishes to die is only temporarily traumatized or mentally ill, even incapable of decision or somehow incompetent. They say it's bad. Smoking cigarettes is unhealthy as well, but there aren't any smoking prevention hotlines posted up all over the place, and you'll never see a news story about some poor person being airlifted to 'safety' by force and bind from a pack of Camels. To interfere with a person's decision is to interrupt their right to live the way they please, even if that is not to live at all. This particular comparison is troublesome to me, because suicide doesn't give off any second hand; There is no passive self-deliverance.

As the article above mentions, isn't it impossible to feel what another person feels? How is it not blatantly narcissistic to assume 'They don't know what's good for them right now but we do, so imprison or hospitalize them until they're 'well''. Isn't it a deplorable thing to consider oneself morally superior in such a way as to border on theocracy? Or to molest another living thing's freedom to decide based on such selfish beliefs?

Ask oneself; Are the only definitions of terminal illness physical? For those who believe in such things, isn't it possible to be spiritually ill? And for those who do not believe, isn't it also possible to be emotionally ill? Time may heal all things for -you-, but not to someone else. Each person perceives things differently, and so is the primitive pack mentality biologically ingrained into homo sapiens so strong that after all these millions of years of evolution, we, so proud to be in and of the 21st century are no further along than considering that there must be something inferior about one who is different from the majority?

Allow me to present a personal case.

I myself often contemplate the act. I feel very much as if I don't belong here, at least not in the way I am. To feel very much like a woman with need of the love for another woman placed into the body of a man with need for another man, each finding the other so purely and almost instinctively abhorrent that the drive of self preservation is overridden by the common belief that neither benefits from being together as one within a self at all - It has been a constant cycle of self hatred of one side, transition, suppression, affirmation (In that the overall whole becomes proud of its state of being), and then a collapse back into self loathing. There is no part here that feels any love or care for itself; All facets bitter to one another, desiring nothing more than to end this despicable mistake of a life for the good of all parts involved. And why then, should I not be allowed to commune with myself and decide that it is the best decision? I, as a whole entity, do nothing with my life but punish and vehemently rebuke myself. To me, I am the most disgusting thing I can conceive, to the point of losing sight of any personal gains or goals. I carry a respect for others, and out of that I typically do not indulge myself socially because it is generally not palatable to ask another person to grasp this conundrum, even less to deal with the drama associated with it. This flesh offends my spirit and so I have remained chaste, vowing upon myself that I would never allow this machine of blood and bone to enjoy itself so long as I have to be piloting it; I could not and would not stand to live with myself if I were to ask someone I held so dearly as to love them to be held near it when I cannot even stand it from the inside. I have starved it, beaten it, made it ill, poisoned it, strengthened it, made it healthy, tried to destroy it, attempted to temper and refine it, and repeated each process again and again- In what way is such a process healthy? Could that not be considered terminal or at very least hopeless or futile illness, which so far is one of the few manners in which to secure a 'green light' for medically assisted euthanasia?

The incurable illness comes from the inside. The only relief isn't even simply to die, but merely to cease to be.

For others, it may be a grave trauma; Rape, violence, witness to an event that bends the mind to a breaking point? Perhaps something so truly horrifying to the eyes of the viewer that it drives them to wriggle free of the very mortal plane on which it took place. Isn't it natural to flee what one fears? The right to happiness may just entail the right to slip into the soothing quiet and calm of death. The right to that peace is to me nothing more than a humanitarian care for the wellbeing of others; Why force them to suffer, why not let them rest? Perhaps even assisted, so that they wouldn't have to take that leap alone-- It's extremely frightening to go out into any unknown wilderness alone, especially one from which there is no return. Why then does it result in incarceration to so much as push a plunger, pull a trigger, push a button, pull a plug, and hold the hand of the departing for comfort as they sail away?

I know of no finer definition of cruelty than to force something to live when it wishes not to.

MiradoBwarrior

i think i see where ur getting at...but in some strange way i guess i kind of agree...but im sure u heard stories of attempted suicide gone wrong? one story a man parked infront of a train track only at the last minute bailed out of the car and caused damage to the train or something rather...i think for these type of reasons suicide is illegal here.........i think....if i make any sense..

funiai

MiradoBwarrior

very very very true! but that is only one of the many similar stories i bet...