When Is Suicide an acceptable alternative to Living

Depression has been my lifelong companion and I've asked myself and others this question

Is suicide every an appropriate response to life?

Yes, it is a persons right to do so

Yes, If you are in physical or emotional pain

Yes, If doing so will help other

No, It is never okay

What should we do as a society with those who express suicidal thought or who have tried suicide in the past?

Nothing, dying is their right

Load them up with medication and therapy

Lock them up for their own safety

Who cares, let them die, more room for us

Why are we discussing this, I'm happy and lucky

Who should pay for the care, medication, or hospitalization?

Let them die it's cheapest

insurance companies

Their families, they raised this crazy

the gov't ( ie all of us through taxes)

Have you ever felt bad enough to consider killing yourself?

Never

Yes, but religous belief forbids it.

Yes, But I couldn't go through with it

Yes, but things changed for the better

Yes, I told someone and got good help

Yes, I tried and failed and no one knew

Yes,I tried,failed,family prtended didn't happen

Yes,I tried, failed went to hospital, got no help

What steps must a depressed person have tried before you would agree that their life could be ended by them?

None, life is precious

Joined a church/ tried religion

Taken Medication

Gone to professional therapy

Been hospitalized

Tried electro- shock therapy

Age is a realitive facture in okaying suicide?

Yes

Yes,adults who have lived a fulllife have more right

Is sex a factor?

Yes, weeping women should not inflict their kids

Yes, weeping men should just die

Could you ever forgive a friend, relative etc.. who planned carefully and then executed a suicide sucessfully?

Yes, if I understood why

Yes, after a certain amount of time

yes, if they left me money in their will

Yes, I'm glad the old winer is a goner

Last question. Does a suicidal parent ( especially a mom) do more damage to her children by committing suicide or by forcing her family to always have to either deal with her insanity or the shame of being sent or taken away?

Kill yourself early, give the kids a chance

Give them away, your family can tell them when older

No,it's better you are with them even depressed

Keep them,they will your understand you when older

This poll was created on 2003-06-18 23:16:24 by cef