Do you believe a person that ends their life because they are at the end of a painful, terminal illness is committing suicide? Is it the same as a depressed but otherwise healthy individual committing suicide? Why or why not?
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Jackey
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No, I think that many times doctors like to "play God". If their time has come, let them go. My grandmother on my mother's side had decided to be taken off of life support two weeks before she passed away. I wouldn't call that suicide.
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Any time you choose to end your life, it's suicide. But that is where the similarities end between an ill and a healthy person commiting suicide. If I had an illness like that I would probably want to do the same thing. I would not be able to assist another person in the same situation, though. I have been told that under no circumstance am I to involve myself in killing another person, not even a defendant in a death penalty case. It doesn't matter what they've done. I'm not allowed to be a part of that.
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By definition the act of taking ones own life is suicide. The reason doesn't change this. Whether we understand and condone it given different scenarios is a different matter altogether. Latin: sui [of oneself] + caedere [to kill] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/suicide
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DELETE...I put this in the wrong place...this was suppose to be a comment on an answer...sorry
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