My gut reaction is to think about the pain inflicted on family and friends with a suicide. It really messes with the people that they leave behind, in a horrible life-altering way. My first thought when I saw the title of the thread was, suicide can be acceptable only if there is no one left behind to mourn their loss.
I'm really interested in hearing others' responses to this topic.
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Originally Posted by levite
To my mind there are pretty much only two immediately unproblematic reasons for suicide: suffering from an incurable degenerative disease that is in, or is about to be in, an advanced stage; suffering from an incurable disease of mental degeneration or progressive dementia.
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I like this response, Levite.
Though honestly I don't equate euthanasia with suicide, since it is ideally performed painlessly with the assistance of an outside source such as an attending physician.