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Chapter 6 - Suicide
Job begins to beg God for a swift death. He feels his trials are too great. He is not strong enough to take them on. He has completely lost hope in his ability to ever have a future again.
*Lack of Hope*
I think that losing hope is a huge factor in people's desire for suicide. When weighing the value of continued existence, you need to calculate your future happiness and subtract your future misery. If you lose hope in the possibility for future happiness, life loses its value quickly. When reaching this type of a low, personally, I found that pondering what constitutes happiness is a useful exercise. If a new source of happiness can be discovered, then you can have hope in a better future that you originally calculated.
*Suicide Stigma*
By begging God for a swift death, Job is subtly implying that he believes he doesn't have the moral right to take his own life, because this would violate God's commandments. Only God has authority to end his life. This is a very toxic idea - that the right to personal autonomy doesn't exist. This leads to many modern-day Christians believing that those who commit suicide are destined for hell, or some equivalent, for breaking God's commandment "thou shalt not kill". This idea leads to both the extended suffering of those who are fearful of the afterlife, and the moral ugliness of someone being judged for suffering so intensely.
*Euthanasia Should be Legal*
The fact that it is possible to suffer so much that the bad outweighs the good is one reason that active voluntarily euthanasia should be a human right. We don't have evidence that anyone ever consented to be born into this world. We don't have evidence that anyone consented to the suffering that this world would bring to them either. If we are subjected to a life of suffering without our consent, we should at least have the authority to consent to end our own lives. The idea that you can come to earth without consent and then be forced to stay here against your will makes you a slave to your experience. Currently, the USA does not support active voluntary euthanasia. No doubt the Christian obsession with the over-simplified edict "thou shalt not kill" has corrupted our laws regarding euthanasia.
NEXT: Chapter 7 - Pathetic existence
Job begins to beg God for a swift death. He feels his trials are too great. He is not strong enough to take them on. He has completely lost hope in his ability to ever have a future again.
*Lack of Hope*
I think that losing hope is a huge factor in people's desire for suicide. When weighing the value of continued existence, you need to calculate your future happiness and subtract your future misery. If you lose hope in the possibility for future happiness, life loses its value quickly. When reaching this type of a low, personally, I found that pondering what constitutes happiness is a useful exercise. If a new source of happiness can be discovered, then you can have hope in a better future that you originally calculated.
*Suicide Stigma*
By begging God for a swift death, Job is subtly implying that he believes he doesn't have the moral right to take his own life, because this would violate God's commandments. Only God has authority to end his life. This is a very toxic idea - that the right to personal autonomy doesn't exist. This leads to many modern-day Christians believing that those who commit suicide are destined for hell, or some equivalent, for breaking God's commandment "thou shalt not kill". This idea leads to both the extended suffering of those who are fearful of the afterlife, and the moral ugliness of someone being judged for suffering so intensely.
*Euthanasia Should be Legal*
The fact that it is possible to suffer so much that the bad outweighs the good is one reason that active voluntarily euthanasia should be a human right. We don't have evidence that anyone ever consented to be born into this world. We don't have evidence that anyone consented to the suffering that this world would bring to them either. If we are subjected to a life of suffering without our consent, we should at least have the authority to consent to end our own lives. The idea that you can come to earth without consent and then be forced to stay here against your will makes you a slave to your experience. Currently, the USA does not support active voluntary euthanasia. No doubt the Christian obsession with the over-simplified edict "thou shalt not kill" has corrupted our laws regarding euthanasia.
NEXT: Chapter 7 - Pathetic existence
