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"Suicide"

No, not a 'sympathy please' thread, just general views and stuff on the matter.

In America, I am not sure about England, it is illegal and you can be arrested for trying to kill yourself. I think this is wrong, you are in charge of your life and nobody else has the permission to keep you alive or kill you. I think that suicide should be legalised, it would probably prevent the number of people attempting suicice as a 'cry for help' thing.

Some people will say suicide is really pathetic and a cowards way out. I beg to differ. It takes a hell of a lot of guts to cut your own wrists or jump off a bridge. Overdosing is the quick and easy way to do it and perhaps is a bit cowardly but many other methods take a lot of guts I reckon.

Apparently 1 in 3 people between the age of 13 and 19 seriously consider suicide. A lot of them do so because of pressure from exams or parents or from bullying. I have been really depressed in life before and though about it as a plausible option to take, but I know I would never have the guts to do it. People use suicide as a threat to other people, they think that by telling people they are going to kill themselves that they will get sympathy and their lives will be fine again.

So what do you think?
Should it be legal?
It is an easy way out?

personally after all i've been through, i think that some religious folk are a pile of tosh. take Jehovah's witnesses for example. i was once part of them, but we no longer had any love for them after discovering that they actually had a sek offender's register in their organisation. there are some good people, but faceless organisations and corporations are the scum out their. they are like the algea of the true water, or the weeds choking the plant of inner prosperity

DébUK wrote:
> Once we know everything, what is there to learn?

Well, nothing, obviously.

The bible does NOT repeat does NOT metion a trinity. It was a pagan belief brought in by the church to increase membership, it twisted what was really said in the bible.

Cyclone wrote:
> Thing is, neither can be proved.

Yes, nothing can ever be proved, only disproved. You could do an experiment 50 million times and get the same results, but nothing is stopping the next experiment having a different outcome.

There are many things that are beyond the human mind to understand (like the Holy Trinity) and I find it comforting that we can never know everything. Once we know everything, what is there to learn?

Religion in its essence is perfect.

In practice, man breaks it.

Cyclone wrote:
> I don't neccessarily believe in science, and do not believe in
> religion at all. To me, in terms of the whole of humanity, it has
> created more problems than its solved.

I agree. Just taking the bible as an example for a moment, had everyone just believed what is really in it, as opposed to interpreting it their way, then all would be united. The moral is, don't try thinking you know better than God.

Some things in the bible are definite numbers though. Like the "weeks" in some prophecies, they were weeks of years which is how all the dates work from. Gets very confusing at places.

Oddly enough, apparently most of the inscence sticks used around that time were made up of mostly marajuana.

Hehe.

Thing is, neither can be proved.

I don't neccessarily believe in science, and do not believe in religion at all. To me, in terms of the whole of humanity, it has created more problems than its solved.

However, I follow science rather than religion.

Yeah.
Jesus taught people in parables because they wouldn't understand what he meant if he tried to explain things literally. Who's to say the entire bible isn't just one big parable to make learning easier?