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Is suicide permissible if only certain types of people do it? Does it not matter who does it, it's always fine morally? Is it always immoral no matter the situation?

Edit: I'm not suicidal at all, just wondering how you all view the subject from a moral standpoint.

Not much else to add here. Is suicide permissible if only certain types of people do it? Does it not matter who does it, it's always fine morally? Is it always immoral no matter the situation? Edit: I'm not suicidal at all, just wondering how you all view the subject from a moral standpoint.

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I believe it is wrong, but on principle, I wouldn't wish for any institution to deny a person the choice. In cases of depression or strokes of very poor luck, I think it is easier for people to make the moral case against suicide. The cases where a person suffers from advanced ALS, for example, for whom each day is nothing but pain and the experience of being trapped in one's own body, it is a lot harder to admonish that person for wanting life to end. I simply cannot say to that person: "You must live."

As far as how I construe suicide in terms of its moral consequence (say, from a religious perspective), I have to say I simply don't know. I recognize that there are those who would call it a mortal sin, but I'm just not satisfied I know what that even means.