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I say you can off yourself if you have become a legitimate burden to everyone around you and society in general, or if you are in the last stages of a terminal illness.
Short of that, you have an obligation to live, even if you don't want to. Your parents/guardians and society have a huge investment in you, and you owe them.
I have been suicidal before, and I know how easy it is to into that kind of funk for no good reason, and how easy it is to get out after you get your head screwed on straight. I have been more or less happy for many years now, and even when I feel down, I don't think about suicide anymore.
That, I think, is where the tragedy of suicide lays. I feel like many people who kill themselves do so prematurely when they woulod have turned the corner in a few days or weeks and realized the value of their lives.
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