If someone is suffering from an incurable mental illness, and they want to commit suicide to absolve themselves from the pain and suffering, should we just be like "Ok, go do it" and be totally fine with it?
I don't know the answer, but my inkling is that is not the position that I would take.
If you agree with that, fine. However a doctor told me once that depression is a deadly disease. It is deadly because a depressed person can decide to commit suicide, but it is the depression that is talking. We should help depressed people and find a way to treat depression.
So if I were depressive and would think about committing suicide, I would try to get treatment first if I am able at all me being in the depths of depression.
For others this is a difficult line to thread for a bystander. If asked I would tell: Yes you are free to commit suicide but I suggest to treat mental problems like depression first.
If someone is suffering from an incurable mental illness, and they want to commit suicide to absolve themselves from the pain and suffering, should we just be like "Ok, go do it" and be totally fine with it?
I don't know the answer, but my inkling is that is not the position that I would take.
Does that make me selfish?