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Moral Issue of Suicide
DEFINTION
Direct willfull destruction of one’s own lifeDeliberateVoluntaryIntentionalTerminating one’s own life
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE
WITH SUICIDE AND
EUTHANASIA?
Suicide Euthanasia
Destructive and violent
The person is healthy when it comes to physical condition
Sudden interruption or destruction of life process
Non-medical reasons
Person has incurable ailment or terminal condition
Painless, quiet acceleration of imminent of certain death
Medical reasons
WHERE WILL YOU CLASSIFY
ASSISTED SUICIDE?
Causes of Suicide across the History
Kamikaze pilots during world war II Heroic act due to sacrifice of their own country
Japanese Shintoist Believes that those who died for one’s country will
become one of the deities.Japanese’s Harakiri
To die for the sake of honorRoman Catholics Irishment and Buddhist
Self-immolation and self-starvation
Causes of Suicide
1. Personal reasons1. Misforutne and frustrations in love or marriage2. Victim of a broken home or marriage3. Parental indifference or apathy towards one’s
boyfriend or girlfriend4. In-law problems5. Failure in an examination6. Loss of honor and integrity7. Nervous breakdown d/t inability to cope to problems
Causes of Suicide
2. Financial reasons Poverty and impoverishment Great loss of money or collapse in business venture
3. Social reasons failed coup d’etat Protest against man’s inhumanity to man
Pros of SuicideSocrates
Believes that life is a property of God But for him one is accepted to commit suicide if:
Shame, distress,impoverishment Extraodinary problems Enevitable turn of future
Epicurus Life is no linger pleasureable then the recourse is to
terminate itLucius Sineca
Suicide is an escape of suffering from decay of old age
Pros of Suicide
Michael de Montaigne Individual reaches a point when it is terrible pain, agony
and misery, then suicide is excusableJohn Donne
Means of liberating oneself from exploitation and oppresionBaron de Montesquieu
It is unjust to compel a person to labor for society he no longer consents to be a member
The act of suicide does not disturbe the order of Providence, nor does any other human act alter the modifications of matter
Thought the soul is separated from the body, the order or regularity in the universe is never changes
Pros of Suicide
David Hume The removal of misery makes suicide morally
justifiable and permissible To bear unbearable pain is in no way part of a natural
inclination Moral duty is reciprocal
alive and healthy render service to society Life becomes a liablitiy and burden to society suicide
There is no such thing as designed by God Man’s life is disposable as that of an oyster
Cons on Suicide
Flavius Josephus Suicide is a crime Soul is depositum
St. Augustine Suicide- the greatest sin Self-murder Deprives ones oppurtunity to repent Ignoble acts – escape the ills of life
St. Thomas Aquinas Against natural law of self –preservation Person will be deprived of the community Usurpation of God’s function
Application of Ethical Theories
NATURAL LAW ETHICS Principle of stewardship Suicide is a sin
UTILITARIAN’S PRINCIPLE Whenever one has become a burden and liability to
the greatest number of people, its justifiable to commit suicide
KANT’S ETHICS Categorical imperative
Treat individulas not as means only but also as ends Principle of autonomy/self-determination
Has the right to decide whether to commit suicide or not