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- Suicide Solution
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- I'm about to take up a position which is going to be deamed by some,
- if not all, as a terrible stand to take. As a matter of fact, if anyone were
- to agree with me on ths subject, I'd be surprsed. For you see, rather than
- arguing from the postion of suicide being an unjustified and inane way to
- die, I shall argue the other point. That being suicide does have its merits.
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- Before you people start screaming, hear my case out. Most people
- argue that nothing justifies the taking of someone's life. Yet what makes
- life so valuable? Why do people cling to it so? All we consist of is a bunch
- of carbon atoms, bound together to form an exoskeleton, organs, and tissue.
- In this light, there really is not much to life. Out of the 5 billion who
- inhabit the planet, very few of them shall emerge to be true world leaders.
- The rest will just lead a mediocre life of work and little play.
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- The taking of ones life can be argued from a populistic view as well.
- It makes little sense to preserve life in an over populated world. True, one
- less person here on there will not make a large dent. Yet if everyone who
- attempts or had attempted suicide were not stopped, the impact would be
- noticed.
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- Another popular argument for stoppers, people who want to prevent
- suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this? They
- do not have to put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does everyday.
- How could they possibly know what the potential suicide victim feels. Just
- as a severely burned victim may wish to be allowed to die in peace, the
- suicide victim wishes the same. To die in peace with no argument from
- others.
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- The argument of "look at the people you will hurt" also does not
- hold. Imidiate family members will be the only ones to suffer any great pain.
- Friends will go on with thier lives and in time forget about the death.
- Imidiate family too will forget the loss in time. Although it will take most
- considerably longer for them than it will for friends.
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- Finaly, the argument of suicide being selfish is hard to grasp.
- Selfish in whose eyes? Certainly not the eyes of the victim. To them, they
- consider it selfish of others to try and preserve their life. Again, the
- argument of the stoppers don't know what the victim has to go through. They
- are not the ones enduring the pain.
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- Religious people also crop up into the debate. Catholics claim that
- for someone to committ suicide sneds their soul straight to Hell. In many
- religions, suicide is considered taboo. However why is this so? Why should it
- be looked upon as disgracefull, when some religions claim death the be the
- reward for people after their time on earth is done.
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- Suicide is an issue which should be examined at by all angles. Not
- just from the angle that it is "wrong". End of debate. Rather it should be
- looked at from the point of view that "yes" for some people, they should be
- allowed to die in peace.
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