Suicide Solution Essay, Research Paper

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.