Subject: Re: suicide
Akane574@cs.com
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 18:35:32 EST
> << The only reason this is "cowardace" is because of your hoi-poli lack
> respect for the individual. Suicide is the ultimate act of will.
>
> Existentialism condones suicide as does Transcendentialism (the Emerson
> Thoreau version). Islam promotes suicide for the Jihad, the ultimate
> sacrifice for the cause and a first class ticket to heaven. Japanese WWII
> pilots (well I really shouldn't have to say anymore about that).
>
> Suicide is a personal decision. And it takes a hell of a lot more
> courage to take a knife to your throat, or pull a trigger, than it does to
> put the gun down. It's only popular double-talk that says otherwise.
>
> free your mind,
>
> -j >>
>
> You think I've never read existentialist authors?
>
> It's easier to die than to live. Seems to me suicide is the ultimate form
> of
> bad faith. Especially if it's motivated by pressures from those around
you.
>
>
> Pull your head out :)
>
> Jim
i was completely uninterested in this conversation, mostly because i've just
been too busy to let myself be interested in it. but i see that mention of
existentialism and i can't help but reply. i'm not sure about this, but i
don't think existentialism condones suicide...i think. it's just the choice
that the "true existentialist" tends to make. or something like that. but
it's not condoned, just a common practice.
-Lauren
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