4. Suicide Euthanasia
Destructive and violent Person has incurable
The person is healthy ailment or terminal
when it comes to condition
physical condition Painless, quiet
Sudden interruption or acceleration of
destruction of life imminent of certain
process death
Non-medical reasons Medical reasons
6. Causes of Suicide across the History
Kamikaze pilots during world war II
Heroic act due to sacrifice of their own country
Japanese Shintoist
Believes that those who died for one’s country will become one
of the deities.
Japanese’s Harakiri
To die for the sake of honor
Roman Catholics Irishment
and Buddhist
Self-immolation and self-starvation
7. Causes of Suicide
1. Personal reasons
1. Misforutne and frustrations in love or marriage
2. Victim of a broken home or marriage
3. Parental indifference or apathy towards one’s boyfriend or
girlfriend
4. In-law problems
5. Failure in an examination
6. Loss of honor and integrity
7. Nervous breakdown d/t inability to cope to problems
8. Causes of Suicide
2. Financial reasons
Poverty and impoverishment
Great loss of money or collapse in business venture
3. Social reasons
failed coup d’etat
Protest against man’s
inhumanity to man
9. Pros of Suicide
Socrates
Believes that life is a property of God
But for him one is accepted to commit suicide if:
Shame, distress,impoverishment
Extraodinary problems
Enevitable turn of future
Epicurus
Life is no linger pleasureable then the recourse is to terminate
it
Lucius Sineca
Suicide is an escape of suffering from decay of old age
10. Pros of Suicide
Michael de Montaigne
Individual reaches a point when it is terrible pain, agony and
misery, then suicide is excusable
John Donne
Means of liberating oneself from exploitation and oppresion
Baron de Montesquieu
It is unjust to compel a person to labor for society he no longer
consents to be a member
The act of suicide does not disturbe the order of Providence,
nor does any other human act alter the modifications of matter
Thought the soul is separated from the body, the order or
regularity in the universe is never changes
11. Pros of Suicide
David Hume
The removal of misery makes suicide morally justifiable and
permissible
To bear unbearable pain is in no way part of a natural
inclination
Moral duty is reciprocal
alive and healthy render service to society
Life becomes a liablitiy and burden to society suicide
There is no such thing as designed by God
Man’s life is disposable as that of an oyster
12. Cons on Suicide
Flavius Josephus
Suicide is a crime
Soul is depositum
St. Augustine
Suicide- the greatest sin
Self-murder
Deprives ones oppurtunity to repent
Ignoble acts – escape the ills of life
St. Thomas Aquinas
Against natural law of self –preservation
Person will be deprived of the community
Usurpation of God’s function
13. Application of Ethical Theories
NATURAL LAW ETHICS
Principle of stewardship
Suicide is a sin
UTILITARIAN’S PRINCIPLE
Whenever one has become a burden and liability to the
greatest number of people, its justifiable to commit suicide
KANT’S ETHICS
Categorical imperative
Treat individulas not as means only but also as ends
Principle of autonomy/self-determination
Has the right to decide whether to commit suicide or not