Suicide Is a Rational Choice and Suicide is Always Wrong The goal for this paper is to present a comparison about what makes a worthwhile life between Suicide Is a Rational Choice and Suicide is Always Wrong. Psychiatrist Thomas S. Szasz argues that there is no such thing than mental illness and is just a simply myth. Also, Szasz believes that the intervention of physicians makes the case of suicide worst. And, physician’s intervention takes away the freedom of will of the individual. On the contrary, Emmanuel Kant the author of ‘Suicide Is Always Wrong’ believes that humans who commits suicide destroys his freedom. Again, Kant believes that a man should considered himself as an end and not as a means. Dr. Szasz argues that there are three
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God has giving us life and therefore he is the only one that can take it away. In my belief committing suicide is a sin because as the 6th commitment say, ‘You should not kill’ and committing suicide is killing one self. For this reason, I believe that suicide is wrong, and that Kant has a valid point. What I don’t agreed with is that Kant argues that a man that commits suicide should be treated like a thing and if he tries to die and don’t kill himself should have no value. We shouldn’t judge anybody for anything they want to do with their lives, I am assuming that if someone wants to die if because is going through a hard situation in life. What we can do is try everything to help that person everything it takes rather than judge him/her. On the contrary, I believe that Dr. Szasz arguments are not valid because he argues that if a human being desires to kill himself it shouldn’t take away that freedom of will. And most important that suicide is not a mental illness but a desire that an individual has, and physician should not interfere because they are not going to cure their problem. I certainly believe that people that want to die is because they need help of a professional and that would be a physician or psychiatrist. It might be that a person is suffering from drug addiction, alcoholism, violence abuse, etc. therefore it needs rehabilitation and medication. We cannot say that it would be a worthwhile …show more content…
Although it is wrong to think that committing suicide would degrades humanity. And that Dr. makes an argument that physicians should not interfere in helping individuals when trying to commit
God has giving us life and therefore he is the only one that can take it away. In my belief committing suicide is a sin because as the 6th commitment say, ‘You should not kill’ and committing suicide is killing one self. For this reason, I believe that suicide is wrong, and that Kant has a valid point. What I don’t agreed with is that Kant argues that a man that commits suicide should be treated like a thing and if he tries to die and don’t kill himself should have no value. We shouldn’t judge anybody for anything they want to do with their lives, I am assuming that if someone wants to die if because is going through a hard situation in life. What we can do is try everything to help that person everything it takes rather than judge him/her. On the contrary, I believe that Dr. Szasz arguments are not valid because he argues that if a human being desires to kill himself it shouldn’t take away that freedom of will. And most important that suicide is not a mental illness but a desire that an individual has, and physician should not interfere because they are not going to cure their problem. I certainly believe that people that want to die is because they need help of a professional and that would be a physician or psychiatrist. It might be that a person is suffering from drug addiction, alcoholism, violence abuse, etc. therefore it needs rehabilitation and medication. We cannot say that it would be a worthwhile …show more content…
Although it is wrong to think that committing suicide would degrades humanity. And that Dr. makes an argument that physicians should not interfere in helping individuals when trying to commit