Discussion What country are you from and what are its views on suicide?

[IfHeDiesHeDies]

I am from Cambodia which is a Buddhist country and the Buddhist doctrine stipulates that suicide is a major sin. It is hardly talked about here and if one ctb, it would bring immense shame on the surviving family members. I think the West have a more tolerant attitude towards suicide ( but still falls well short of a humane standard). Where are you from and how does your country view suicide?

 

[Maravillosa]

I am from the USA. It seems that suicide is seen primarily as a mental health problem to be resolved, though there are many Christians in this country who consider suicide to be sinful.

 

[Ben]

I am from Cambodia which is a Buddhist country and the Buddhist doctrine stipulates that suicide is a major sin. It is hardly talked about here and if one ctb, it would bring immense shame on the surviving family members. I think the West have a more tolerant attitude towards suicide ( but still falls well short of a humane standard). Where are you from and how does your country view suicide?

Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called medically assisted dying and became legal along with assisted suicide as of June 2016 to end the suffering of terminally ill adults.

It's a start

 

[IfHeDiesHeDies]

I am from the USA. It seems that suicide is seen primarily as a mental health problem to be resolved, though there are many Christians in this country who consider suicide to be sinful.

religion can be the root of many evils. But I think at least there are more enlightened and empathetic people in the US where physician assisted death is available in some states.

 

[IfHeDiesHeDies]

Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called medically assisted dying and became legal along with assisted suicide as of June 2016 to end the suffering of terminally ill adults.

It's a start

It's definitely a start in the right direction. sadly, I can't see that ever happening in my country.

 

[Sayo]

Australia. It's viewed similarly to in the USA, but just like there, very different based on the individual. Overall, a mental health crisis and tragic for the families / six-degree-separated acquaintances of the dead. I guess one thing is seemingly secular people still have Christian values here, and moralise accordingly.

There's a big thing about youth suicide in that way in particular. But the massive indigenous suicide rate here, for example, is viewed varyingly as inevitable colonial triumph over a backwards race or an ignored humanitarian tragedy. No one cares to moralise to us, just use it as a rhetorical device :P Farmers killing themselves is viewed as an economic injustice and an outrage (unlike other similarly-motivated suicides which are instead represented as chemical imbalances) for political reasons. I'm being a bit reductive but yeah. A lot of very individualist narratives define the reason and then it's decided whether it was cowardly or just a sad, bewildering tragedy.

 

[worldexploder]

USA....euthanasia on demand for any adult who wants it.

EDIT: misread the title. From the USA and our country is against it. Only 5 states has it legal for the terminally ill. For anyone else it's illegal. It should be unconstitutional to deny us the right to die.

 

[Aaron]

east eu, feels like it's just statistics here

 

[Kogoruhn]

I'm from Argentina, and we have the death with dignity act, reserved only for people bedridden with a terminal illness. No assisted suicide or euthanasia.

 

[hunter_lewis]

in my country (Western Europe) it is seen as a mental illness and tragedy, that the suicidal person is ill and must be helped with involuntary sectioning. There are all kinds of bans on selling poisons and guns and the like

 

[MortDeVivre]

Suicide was decriminalized in Canada in 1972. To this day, anyone found guilty of counseling someone to kill themselves, or helping them do it, can be imprisoned for up to 14 years.

 

[RM5998]

I'm from India, which has... weird views on the subject. Popular culture casts suicidal people as weak and/or attention-seeking, and the major religions cast it in a pretty negative light. However, attempted suicide is often glamorized as a means to get the attention of others when the suffering is 'legitimate' (this is prevalent in the romantic context). Attempted suicide was decriminalized recently, but a large part of the culture dismisses suicidal people as weak and stupid. The media fetishizes suicide, and reports it aggressively and in great detail to get people to watch in morbid curiosity. Victim blaming is common.

Yeah, no wonder I don't tell my parents what I intend to do.

 

[Trashcan]

US. People either blame it on mental health or thinks it's some cowardly, selfish sin. We are the most indivuslastic country in the world so people place a lot of emphasis on the individual but often fail to look at external factors or the community.

 

[samhelloall9]

Australia.
It clearly hates suicide by making euthanasia drugs so hard to import. Includes n.
The Netherlands is more tolerant than this close minded country i was born in. Sigh. It sucks big time!
So there you go.

 

[Jerryman]

UK, suicide is very common but it's kept hush and most are not reported in the media. No way I can see suicide ever being legal here, old people are kept alive for as long as possible no matter what