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> I do wonder how many of them are Christians who are legalistically trying to avoid the Christian prohibition of suicide this way. While legalism isn't genera
by User23 3y ago
> I do wonder how many of them are Christians who are legalistically trying to avoid the Christian prohibition of suicide this way.
While legalism isn't generally a good look for morality, there really are some situations where the nuance matters. In this case it's a matter of intent and what can be foreseen. The "loophole" for Christians or anyone else who is suffering extremely is pain management. Drugs may be licitly provided in any amount necessary for that pain management. If the amount of the drug necessary for pain management will foreseeably cause death, it's still not suicide because the intent is not to euthanize, but to manage pain. This shouldn't sound so strange, because the secular legal system also takes intent into account. On the other hand when the intent is to kill rather than to care, then yes it's not healthcare it's murder or suicide.
Similarly, it's licit to discontinue life preserving interventions when those interventions are otherwise intolerable.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoI agree. Even in Christianity there are noble suicides when the suicide is performed to do a good.
- sparrish 3y agoPlease provide some examples.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoAny time someone knowingly, and with aforethought became a martyr. When death is inevitable but the sacrifice of one's life can save others (or is otherwise to the good). SPOILER FOR THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE: In the movie The Poseidon Adventure one of the survivors sacrifices himself as otherwise they all would have died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poseidon_Adventure_(1972_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poseidon_Adventure_(1972_f... > A ruptured pipe releases steam, blocking their escape. Scott rants at God for the survivors' deaths as he leaps across a pool of flaming oil, grabbing onto the burning-hot valve wheel to shut down the steam. Scott tells Rogo to lead the group on before falling to his death. You can argue that instances like this aren't suicide, but this is only true because the deaths were good deaths for a purpose. You may say they aren't suicide, but I'd call them noble suicides.