Legalize suicide?

Life is precious not a throw away item.

 

I'm reluctant to comment further on this as, per usual, I have information others are not privy to. Sychar your life is precious, that's all I'm saying, same with Chris, or anyone for that matter.

 

I never share anything personal obviously, but I get why you and Chris feel this way, that's why I worry about you guys sometimes.

 

Well I guess in a sense, atheists who don't kill themselves in moments of suffering are acting illogically according to their world view. It goes the same with atheists who are against abortion, who stand for tolerance and love, who are against war, who value marriage and monogamy, etc... Not saying that atheists don't value these things, however these things are not based within the logical response of an atheistic worldview.

Most atheists would adopt these attributes culturally depending on where they are from. However it's still within a sense irrational.

When a religious person kills themselves, they are behaving in contradiction to what they believe, they are behaving irrationally within their religion worldview.

If you want to speak statistics, countries that tend to lean more atheistic (both culturally and religiously) tend to have higher suicide rates versus countries that lean more religiously.

With that being said, I would agree with you that suicide can have many factors that can influence a person... Probably the biggest reason can be mental health.

 

Here's an interesting question, how can we distinguish between clinical depression and behavioral depression. I think Jordan Peterson brings a very interesting point about how people choose to live their lives. Depression is such a complex thing and can have many attributes, I personally think that many people suffer from behavioral depression where their lifestyle is what's causing their depression without them even knowing it.

 

While abortion is legal, euthanizing should be as well.

 

Honestly I'm sympathetic towards euthanasia than I am to abortion. Although I'm against both, euthanasia makes more sense to me.

 

Though, no matter how much you are into pain to give in (if we talk about emotional breakdown, not a physical one), it will make a staying suffer for those around you.

 

Well that's the thing that most people don't take into account when it comes to suicide and euthanasia. It affects more people than just the person who dies. Imagine if a mother has lost her child to a legal suicide or her child requested to be euthanized... I think she would be put under greater suffering than the person who dies.

 

Makes sense. I don’t see how wanting your own death is illegal, but wanting someone else’s death is perfectly okay when it comes to the law.

 

Exactly.

While abortion (if it is "taken care of" at first weeks) seems with no regrets and just with bold emptiness, while you still kill a living organism. It could be named a legal suicide for an unborn, though against its will.

 

there is no such thing as "behavioral depression". If you dont believe google it and you will find out that there is absolute no mentioning of behavioral depression. Depression is just depression.

Even if you are bi-polar and have periods of manic behaviour and then depressive behaviour, depression is exactly same as clinical depression and in both cases it should be dealt with otherwise it will just grow bigger over time.