El Suicidio
Suicide ranks among the top 10 causes of death according statistics of the World Health Organization. It is considered that commit suicideeach day in the world at least 1,110 people and trying hundreds of thousands, without regard the geography, culture, religion, socioeconomic status, and so on. Any person may, at some point in theirexistence, feeling that life doesn’t makes sense for several reasons, including physical or mental illness, the loss of valuable a relationship hidden or unwanted pregnancy, loneliness, the dailydifficulties in persons intolerant, making suicide in the best and only option for them.
Many people believe that life should be preserved even against the will of the individual himself,as expressed the psicologist Paul G. Quinnet in his book Suicide: The Forever Decision, published in 1987,"Research has shown that a substantial majority of people have considered suicide at one timein their lives, and I mean considered it seriously" (Continuum, p. 12). Nevertheless, thinking about suicide is generally speaking frowned upon and by itself is enough to result in involuntary"hospitalization" and so-called treatment in a psychiatric "hospital", particularly if the person in question thinks about suicide seriously and refuses (so-called) outpatient psychotherapy to get thisthinking changed.
In contrast, the assertions that people have a right to not only thinks about suicide, also to commit suicide has been made by many people who believe in individualfreedom. It is a position expressed by Nietzsche when he wrote, `There is a certain right by which we may deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death.' Taken from its socialand psychological context, suicide is regarded by some purely as an issue of personal freedom” (W. W. Norton & Co., p. 209). The consistency of descriptions from a broad range of individuals points to...
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