Suicide

There has been a great discussion about suicide and are many different ways to think. In my opinion, however, suicide is morally wrong. This is because suicide can cause someone trouble objectively. When we think about troubles for suicide, there are some ideas that could be come up with easily, for example, sad feelings of family or friends and influence on contribution to society. That means if someone suddenly disappear their places of work, other people have to fill vacant posts. Most people might think causing someone trouble is bad thing. Of course, I do think so because I think we have to live with helping with each other. However, why do we consider that disturbing someone in any situation is a bad thing? I am going to talk about this problem with considering that suicide could be one of the biggest things in that regard.

First of all, I gave some example about causing someone trouble, but I would like to emphasize that we reap a huge amount of benefit and betraying them is one of the ugliest actions that I think. All people keep benefiting from anything. Being born, they are already received benefits from their parents, then, while they are growing up, they are done from not only their parents, but also their friends, lovers and so on. When we say “benefit”, the word has kind of an indefinite meaning. For example, however, if you can have a great lunch time with your friends, you can say you receive kindness from them in that it is considered that you cannot have fun alone. Similarly, we have been at indebtedness position from non-humans. The reason is that hundreds of thousands of animal’s lives are sacrificed for our lives and we reap a lot of benefit from them. In other words, we cannot live without benefit of non-humans. Killing oneself means casting away their lives and giving away all benefit which are given by them. I believe that no one confer a favor for you hoping that you betray it. In addition, all of them desire that you will live happy life so they take care of you. In this situation, can we say that suicide is freedom to choose? I certainly want to say “No”. We have a duty to take advantage of precious things which are given by anyone else.

Taking Kant’s objection to suicide into account, the discussion now turns to the comparison between his opinion and mine. According to his thought, if a person has courage to kill himself and strength to seek more valuable things than his own life, he must live with the strength. I think his opinion is really true and one of the ways to help people who are thinking about suicide. However, this thought thinks about only the person, so it is different from my idea because I do want to focus on not only the person but also people around him. Actually, who is going to be sad by or suffering from suicide? It is people who will have lived long time without a person who died. That is to say dead person will not feel sad and pain, but on the other hand, people around the person will have to live with sad feelings. So suicide is not individual problem.

Next, I am going to think about Mill’s thought of individual freedom. The meaning of freedom that is considered by him is the individual freedom from public opinion. He thought that even if a person did anything by himself, it is his responsibility that any problems cause, and no one can interfere in him. However, an important point is that Mill said that as long as the person does not cause someone trouble. My opinion agrees with this condition in that whatever the person does involve people who are around him.

All in all, suicide is morally wrong because it affects a lot of people around the person. I took some things for instance, but the biggest problem is just sadness of his close relatives. They could think “Why did not stop him?” or “What is the reason why he did?” Everyone knows that making someone sad is not right thing. We have to consider what right or wrong thing anytime. If it is available to think that I am connecting with a lot of people around me like spider’s webs, it is easy to imagine that suicide could be a knife to cut many strong important films by myself. (754)