What do you know about PAIN & SUFFERING? Would you help someone to committ Suicide?

Wow, I come from a lot of different experiences of this type of question.

When I was 21, my Daddy took his .38 Police special revolver with his own packed bullets (hollow core) and after I'd been the last one to see him alive and I went and stepped into the shower to go to my new job, Mom was in the other room and hadn't gotten up yet to go to her job, he put it to his right temple and pulled the trigger. I went into shock, couldn't get into the shower for 6 months, didn't make my new job that morning obviously, Mom didn't make it to hers for a couple of weeks. Gee, thanks, Dad! Very hurt.

I also was around a dear friend in HS who had a girlfriend who falsefied and lied that she was pregnant, she was not, but before we all knew, he felt so bad that if she had been, he goes and gets his daddy's revolver, goes out to the county fairgrounds in DeKalb County, GA at the age of 15 and kills himself.

Then, about a year afterwards, my best friend's neighbor's father walks outside in their back yard, takes his best shot gun, sticks it in his mouth, and well you know the rest.

So, 3 stories of personal suicide.

Now, I worked with an older gentleman whose wife had died of cancer, he didn't want to live even though he had brand new baby girl grdchild, tells me in confidence that because he just found out a year after wife died that he now had cancer, that "I've asked my doctor to give me as much morphine as he can to send me to my wife." what was I supposed to do?

He loved her with all his heart.

Now, next scenario, I've been through the Hospice training program here in Richmond, VA. If you had someone close as 3 months away from death's door who absolutely wanted to go, what would you do? It's a gray area. Depends on legalities of each state, and what if anything the family members want, or if there's a DNR order. (Do not recuscitate) and if they've been revived # of times or not.

Lots of ifs, ands or buts. I personally would just have to be there at their side but no, I couldn't in all conscience "pull the trigger button on an I.V." God can only make that call.

Suicide is the ultimate sin by all Christian standards, yes I know lots of entertainers and martyrs do it and think or don't think nobody or everybody will miss them. My personal tragedy is my father never got to know his 2 beautiful grandchildren because he was so stressed out nor his lovely little great-grandson.

Oh, and one more thing. My maternal Grandmother was severly shrunken up, we were not able to be with her in her last years but my Uncle (mom's brother was) and ofcourse he was closest when she was near death. Well, they took her to Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. once and this little pr--k of a doctor there decides that "it would be best if we tried everything to revive her to give the family a little more time with her!" my mother was furious! She was so small I'm 5'4'' and 190 and she was 1/2 my size from a very stately woman of 5'9" 170 down to 5' and 85 lbs.! She didn't even know who was in the room! But by God that little twerp revived her and then we had to move her to another nursing home. Very sad. then we were on our way down to see her and as we were on the road, she died before we arrived for vacation and we ended up at a funeral the whole rainy week! Even wrote a painful song about it called "I Never Said Goodbye" because that's what my mother said about it. Broke her heart.

So, there you have my take on suicide.

Even with all the troubles in life, their suicides reinforced for me one big thing, "for every door that closes, another one will by the grace of God open."

If Daddy had just waited, everything would have worked out and he wouldn't have had to worry about a dddddd thing!

Mrs. T. /Chesterfield, VA

Let me answer your question with a question. Could you really live with yourself if you did this and then a week later they discovered a cure for whatever the person had? I know I couldn't. There are such things as living wills so the person can specify if they want to be kept alive by artificial means. They can also have a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)order put into their medical files. These are decisions that should be made before an illness has an effect on the person's ability to make a judgment call while they are in pain. There are ways to make a patient comfortable in their last moments on earth. Hospice is a wonderful organization that helps with this.

It is always proper to keep the patient up to the last minute of his/her breath because there is something extraordinary attach to pain and suffering. God has a purpose for it. Pain and suffering has a salvific effect if the person suffering knows how to suffer. It is a part of life until the person is transformed similar to Christ. St. Paul's says, "The suffering of this life cannot be compared of the glory that will be revealed in heaven." So do not end the life of the person through articial means. Wait until she has fulfilled the will of God for her to suffer. It might be his/her sharing of the suffering of Jesus so that others maybe saved or his/her weaknesses maybe appeased for nothing defiled can enter the kingdom of heaven, so it is necessary that we make atonement for any wrongdoing that we might have committed during our life here on earth. All for God's greater glory and honor.

I think that if someone was in terrible pain and suffering that THEY should have the choice to end their own lives. And by that I don't mean taking a shotgun to the mouth. I mean if they have a terminal disease and are in constant agony every waking moment, they should set up rules and guidelines for euthenasia. Why should anyone be forced to live anymore when it's just suffering,,,that's not really even living, it's just "existing". If you really think about it, why should they be kept alive? What's the purpose? They're gonna die anyway so why not help them do it with dignity? Should they be kept alive because their family will miss them and it would pain them to lose a loved one? So in the mean time let their bodies be eaten away by disease and wake up every morning and live each day with pain?

US is a free country people have the right to do what they want.

and there aren't any law stop people from committ suicide.

but i will try convince the people try to suicide stop it.

maybe miracle hap pend no1 know what will happend.

suicide is the same thing with run away

and run away only solve thing temporary.

only face the pain and suffering until the end may give that person a chance to live or enjoy life again

pain and suffering- do you want some- i can give you some is what i know about it. injecting medicine is for wimps. ill open the window and let them jump off 100 stories right now just to see how commited they are.

In some cases I might, it would be wrong and i would burn in hell for it, but if someone truly wants to die and will never be out of exteme pain then sometimes it is best. for instanse my grandmother, she was very sick and they thought they might be able to save her but there would be an 98 percent chance she would be a vegitable, she didnt want that....so we let her go it was best for her....

probably not ,but I would sign a waver in the event that I am no longer able to be a contributing member to my family. Oh , I guess it's called a living will. my Dr. already has it in her files.

I don't know. I have never been in that position. I wish I could tell you what I'd do, but the truth is, emotions would be more prevalent in my decision then I could estimate.

i watched my mother suffer for years the ans. to both questions is no