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True or False: "Sane people never attempt suicide"

By Anti-Semantic - Quaerens Intellectum Asked Oct 17 2009 12:27PM
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by KissMySunshine - NaNoWriMo-ing on Oct 17, 2009 at 12:39 pm Permalink

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Depends on your definition of 'sane', really.

Honestly...some people can't take life and respond badly, for the most part. And, it seems to just build and build. Therefor, the only, sensible, way out is to kill themselves.

Some sane, depressed, people, just really need to be taken aside and hugged and helped, once in a while to feel better. Otherwise, yes. They ARE, indeed, sane.

...Just feeling like the world is dealing them some aweful stuff, at the time.

...I really hope that wasn't confusing. XD
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Avatar Anti-Semantic - Quaerens Intellectum Oct, 18 2009 at 01:31 PM
But someone who is suffering not just from momentary sadness, but real clinical depression, will very likely have neurological issues that affect the way they think and react; something that could not be said about non-depressed "sane" people.
Avatar KissMySunshine - NaNoWriMo-ing Oct, 18 2009 at 01:47 PM
Well, think about it. If all they need is affection and someone to help them find the purpose in their life, and, they've needed it for a very long time, it can become a bigger issue than momentary sadness.
And, it could get to the point where they feel so lost, without that help and affection, that they suddenly don't feel a part of the world, anymore. That can mess with your head, quite a bit, but, it's curable without professional therapy and medication, because, it didn't start from a physical affliction.
And...wow. I'm blabbing. Um...sorry.

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by yahoot on Oct 17, 2009 at 12:31 pm Permalink

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False.
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Avatar yahoot Oct, 17 2009 at 05:24 PM
People with terminal illnesses (the basis of the assisted suicide debate).
People have killed themselves (and their families) to avoid torture or gruesome treatment (the Jews at Masada, early American settlers when faced with capture by Indians, etc.).
spies and resistance fighters killed themselves to avoid capture/interrogation.
I am not saying I agree with them all, but I don't think they are insane.
Avatar Anti-Semantic - Quaerens Intellectum Oct, 18 2009 at 01:29 PM
@Bob: One could argue that someone who has been extensively tortured and suffered malnutrition is bound to suffer from extreme emotional and psychological distress - that's not to say that they would become whacko nutjobs, but they would probably not be sane.
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@Yahoot: Likewise, prolonged suffering of extreme pain could very likely cloud one's better judgment; even if the doctors say that what they have IS very treatable as long as they hold on a while longer, they may be tempted to just give up because of their distress.
Avatar yahoot Oct, 18 2009 at 05:31 PM
Thank you. You are correct that they might choose to commit suicide rather than accept the alternative.
That would be a rational choice, not insanity.
We don't necessarily have to agree with their choice, but it is not insane.

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by Bob on Oct 17, 2009 at 1:00 pm Permalink

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sane and insane people do and don't commit suicide. these are two different things. people who have severe mental illness are indeed at increased risk of committing suicide. but, the vast majority of people with severe mental illness don't commit suicide. prisoners just convicted of capital offenses and the like; people just diagnosed with a severe, chronic, degenerative disease; people in combat / torture; people who just lost a loved one are all at increased risk of committing suicide.
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by the guy behind the bushes on Oct 17, 2009 at 12:50 pm Permalink

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I think that's an iffy answer
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by qwerty on Oct 17, 2009 at 12:34 pm Permalink

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by raindancer on Oct 17, 2009 at 12:47 pm Permalink

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False. Many sane people choose to end their lives for one reason or another. A good example would be when a sane person has a terminal illness that would kill them slowly and painfully, leaving them a shell of their former self at death but instead chooses to die on their own terms. Some people write living wills and such when they are perfectly sane so it is harder to question their choices later on if they do become seriously ill or injured.
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