1. Moral Issue of
Suicide

2. DEFINTION
 Direct willfull destruction of one’s own life
 Deliberate
 Voluntary
 Intentional
 Terminating one’s own life

3. WHAT’S THE
DIFFERENCE
WITH SUICIDE
AND
EUTHANASIA?

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

5. WHERE WILL
YOU CLASSIFY
ASSISTED
SUICIDE?

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