British expat found dead at Kamala home

[slipperylobster]

Some of the replies to this thread are very odd.

Suicide is "above the law"....obviously, when one kills himself...there are no punishments! So who cares about legal (or moral rights, for that matter).

Perhaps those posts that are condoning suicide as an option...feel that family, friends, and humanitarians should butt out? What krap that is. The victim still makes his own choices...and the living make their choices (to help potential victims). We have every right (and moral obligation) to help people through bad times.

This may not of been an "assisted" suicide. That is entirely a different matter. I don't see the point in prosecuting anyone who makes a rope, gun, poison or balcony. Nor even advising on quick, painless ways for people who decided they are suffering too much. But they should be told about other options...and receive counseling.

I do not see the point in throwing ropes, daggers, and pistols into a psychiatric ward either.

Edited January 17, 2016 by slipperylobster

[TKDfella]

A very great man once said:

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest act of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

I do understand this and think life is the most important attribute that the universe has given; but then some people do get so utterly depressed that they are unable to balance values for anything and they see no future for themselves at all. As I posted earlier, a friend of mine committed suicide but he was victim of an accident in a dockyard and a piece of timber pierced his left lung. He recovered an was able to return to work but it was already apparent that his mind just wasn't the same. He had many consultations with doctors as they tried to determined why he had changed, to no avail. One day I was walking back from the local shops and I saw someone standing on the top of a high rise block of flats no too far away and thought it was work going on. I then saw the person simply go to the edge and step off. By the time I got to the scene an ambulance was just arriving. It was my friend and he had already been identified by others. As I have posted before, I have no comprehension about the state of his mind.

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I have to admit your friends case sounds like a strange one. From what I gather there was no head injury in the original accident and yet the purely physical trauma somehow unbalanced him. Human life is incredibly precarious and sometimes a major accident or illness makes us suddenly aware of just how vulnerable we are. This can be hugely unsettling particularly to a person who fixates on things. I don't know if this was your friends case of course.

But to my mind this life is just one in a series and sometimes it is better to just move along to the next one. Just like all things suicide can be bad or good depending on the circumstances. But it is only tragic if you believe that this life is the only one.

I am not religious so for me a human life is just a one time round event. Having said that, I do believe in a 'life energy/force',but not as a biblical 'soul', and is somehow connected, and returned, to the universe when released. However, to debate this, and possibilities, here would be way off topic but would be willing to do so on another thread sometime.

So yes, for me, such suicides are tragic.

[bangon04]

The motives you suggest are not uncommon here, however, maybe he was suffering from a terminal illness, and decided to end his life before going through a slow and painful death.

Medial euthanasia is something many countries are now debating to legalize, so sufferers can have a painless and dignified passing.

RIP.

About time that so - called "civilised" western countries start to distance themselves from the self-righteous demands for a slow, protracted, painful and undignified Christian death.