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Is commiting suicide an act of cowardice or bravery ('cos killing yourself requires guts)?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    id say cowardice.

    its easy to just end it all never have to live it again.

    and just kill yourself.

    it would all be gone in a snap.

    working it out and hanging in there to lives problems requires a lot of strength.

    its much harder.

    people who kill themselves are just overwhelmed. they need someone.

  • 4 years ago

    easily, it fairly is a act of soreness and desperation. It takes large power to stick to by so cowardice isnt it. I easily have been very close countless circumstances and did no longer stick to by using fact i replaced into petrified of what it i did no longer be triumphant and who i could harm. i'm happy now that i did no longer stick to by yet back then it replaced into the only ingredient i needed replaced into for the crap to give up. and that i did no longer care how. i replaced into tried and bored to death with all the psychological soreness. anybody that thinks it fairly is a act of bravery or cowardice has on no account been head to head with the belief heavily.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    First of all, if you are suicidal seek help, second I think it is stupid to call people a coward if they commit/try suicide,I speak from personal experience, I tried , and I am most defiantly not a coward, I was tired of the pain, EVERYDAY, dont think I did not try to fix things, I did , I just could not handle it anymore, upside, I received help and am much better now. It Takes guts!!!!!!

    Source(s): Life!!!!!
  • 1 decade ago

    Well, my mother killed herself 5 years ago. I would say its neither brave nor cowardly. I think suicide is a very selfish act because it leavess the family devastated and left to pick up the pieces. However, since most people who commit suicide are mentally ill, depressed, etc then IMHO, its very difficult to understand their feelings and thoughts. Perhaps they are desperate and feel they have no other way out.

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  • 1 decade ago

    suicide is usually from mental illness so it is neither cowardly or brave. (vomiting or diarrhea from illness is not cowardly or brave either)

    only suicide in perfectly healthy people can be cowardly or brave. if it is suicide to escape something, then it is cowardly.

    if it is suicide like say to run at a bear to save others lives, then that is brave. But sometimes it can be neither still.

    If you have terminal illness and suicide, you are only escaping useless pain. That just means you are not stupid.

  • 1 decade ago

    Firstly I hope you aren't suicidal.

    I don't understand how it can be brave, unless it's like the kamikaze warriors of Japan. I personally think the major driving force is fear. But I guess it really depends.

  • aj
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Cowardice. It would be easier to kill yourself than to face your problems and sort them out?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    cowardice. that's why i can't do it. most of the religious bastards are doing it though. you see the thing to remember why it's cowardice is that you cause fuckload of pain.

    Source(s): "Weell it's a pitiful life". Dr Heathcliff Huxtable
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    bravery id say, im too cowardly to do it, but i wish i could

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Its an act of stupidity and ignorance.

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