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Personally I think that most people commit suicide in order to run from their conceived (or real) problems. I view it as the proverbial easy way out. I do believe though that it would be justifiable in extreme cases of illness.
My Mother's best friend nursed her own Mother through years of cancer treatment. She watched her wither and die slowly in vast vast amounts of pain over the course of a long period of time. Once she had passed on, my Mother's friend told her that she would kill herself in order to not have to go through that herself or to put family members through it. Makes you stop and think. If I saw my own Mother in intense pain and knew that there was no solution and the end result would be the same....I would do my damndest to allow her a quick and painless death compared to possible years of suffering.
And....good point firefly you made about being a POW. I think then a lot of people would view suicide in a different light.
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