In times of great stress and emotional harm, our bodies go through something incredible. It’s a fight or flight response. Either our bodies handle the challenges, or they run away from them. The word suicide comes from the Latin root sui meaning of oneself and cidium meaning killing or slaying. The word can first be seen being used in 1651 when it became more socially acceptable to discuss suicide. Before then, the only word similar to suicide was suicida from the Europe during the 1200’s. Suicida was rarely ever spoken because many living in Europe at the time felt that it was too horrific to talk about. Those who spoke about suicide earlier than those times used a word that would loosely translate to self-murder. They felt that suicide was such a horrific act is was indeed murder. Even though most felt it was a terrible action, there still was discussion about suicide.
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He asserted that we can not take our own live because to do so would be to remove our souls from our bodies. Our lives are punishment by the Gods so to take our own punishment away would cause great distress to the Gods. His student, Plato, continued along Socrates teaching making a few exceptions when suicide was acceptable. The first was when self-killing was a judicial order, as in the case of Socrates. The second was if one’s mind was corrupted beyond repair, as in a person has a mental illness or is terminally ill. The final exception was if self-killing was because of extreme self misfortune. Other philosophers during Ancient Greek times felt that suicide was a right every person had the chance to commit. Those who followed Stoic and Epicurean valued a person’s choice to commit suicide but those values started to fade away when Christianity
He asserted that we can not take our own live because to do so would be to remove our souls from our bodies. Our lives are punishment by the Gods so to take our own punishment away would cause great distress to the Gods. His student, Plato, continued along Socrates teaching making a few exceptions when suicide was acceptable. The first was when self-killing was a judicial order, as in the case of Socrates. The second was if one’s mind was corrupted beyond repair, as in a person has a mental illness or is terminally ill. The final exception was if self-killing was because of extreme self misfortune. Other philosophers during Ancient Greek times felt that suicide was a right every person had the chance to commit. Those who followed Stoic and Epicurean valued a person’s choice to commit suicide but those values started to fade away when Christianity