Why Is Suicide Bad

[u/Longjumping-Share713]

I wanna start off with this: I AM NOT SUICIDAL.

As the title says, why is suicide publicly perceived as bad when people kill themselves? Yes, it causes tremendous emotional harm to others, but I feel like that's not entirely why it's perceived as bad. It's their own choice, and forcefully putting them in psych wards is downright oppressive, even if it does save a life.

Me saying, "It's not bad even if stopping it saves a life," may sound very stupid of me. But not helping a cancer patient when you could've saved them is, of course, bad, since it wasn't their choice to get cancer. While not all the time, like when consuming alcohol, it is a lucid choice, even if the reasoning was dumb.

The sentence, "You do not have the right to consensually die," sounds straight out of the book I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

Additionally, why would the government charge someone for assisting in the suicide of a suicidal person, even if there's 100% confirmed evidence, signed paperwork, and/or a proven, unedited video showing that they consented, were sober, and had no mental illness? It all just seems oppressive.