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