Discussion Can someone be morally obligated to kill themselves?

[asdfasdfasdf]

Looking for personal advice and interesting moral discussion.

I really enjoy life, and most of the time I am glad I'm alive. However, whenever I hurt someone else (always accidental), I feel like I must kill myself because it's immoral for me to continue living.

So my question is: Are there any scenarios where the moral thing for a person to do is to kill themselves? If so, what sort of scenarios does this include?

Personally the stuff I'm dealing with is e.g.: today I thought it was safe to cross a road, but it wasn't, and I almost got myself and a friend hit by a car. Which I believe makes me too dangerous to be left alive. But I don't know if this is objectively correct, since I'm too close to the scenario to judge it objectively.

 

[lionetta12]

Looking for personal advice and interesting moral discussion.

I really enjoy life, and most of the time I am glad I'm alive. However, whenever I hurt someone else (always accidental), I feel like I must kill myself because it's immoral for me to continue living.

So my question is: Are there any scenarios where the moral thing for a person to do is to kill themselves? If so, what sort of scenarios does this include?

Personally the stuff I'm dealing with is e.g.: today I thought it was safe to cross a road, but it wasn't, and I almost got myself and a friend hit by a car. Which I believe makes me too dangerous to be left alive. But I don't know if this is objectively correct, since I'm too close to the scenario to judge it objectively.

Only thing close to this that I can think of is people in jail who were found guilty of a crime who then end up CTB in their cell after being found guilty. If they CTB due to guilt though, that's another question. I assume most CTB because they don't want to be locked up for a long time and can't mentally handle that thought, not so much because of the feeling of guilt.

 

[CantDoIt]

I don't think anyone is, although they should feel guilty and apologetic for things they have done wrong. Since I can't be a fan of the death penalty I can't be a fan of moral ctb either. Also, your example is quite extreme. I think it might not qualify at all as being 'bad.'

 

[dust-in-the-wind]

I think if you have Alzheimer's or Dementia, when it gets bad and you don't even know who you or anyone else is, you should be humanely euthanized. Otherwise you could languish for years in that state.

 

[JustSomeWeirdo]

Looking for personal advice and interesting moral discussion.

I really enjoy life, and most of the time I am glad I'm alive. However, whenever I hurt someone else (always accidental), I feel like I must kill myself because it's immoral for me to continue living.

So my question is: Are there any scenarios where the moral thing for a person to do is to kill themselves? If so, what sort of scenarios does this include?

Personally the stuff I'm dealing with is e.g.: today I thought it was safe to cross a road, but it wasn't, and I almost got myself and a friend hit by a car. Which I believe makes me too dangerous to be left alive. But I don't know if this is objectively correct, since I'm too close to the scenario to judge it objectively.

Considering CTB (aka suicide). I accidentally caused a friend of mine to kill myself. A lot of my friends try to kill themselves anyway. so I carry a noose for if life beats me up once more.

 

[groucho]

I'm terrified of going mad and hurting people, I've had suicide as a back up if I start to lose my grip on reality assuming I'm self aware enough to know I'm losing it.

 

[Forever Sleep]

There was a member here who was plagued by increasingly sadistic and violent thoughts towards others. I want to point out there was a reason they became like this- they had been abused themselves. Also that they had been forced into 'help' in the past and, it had only made things worse. I believe in main part, they CTB because they were afraid they were getting to the point where they might act on their desires and actually hurt someone.

Absolutely truthfully speaking- if the choice was: someone rapes, murders or molests a child or adult- if they truly can't control their impulses or, they end themselves then yes- I think the moral thing to do would be to prevent themselves from hurting others by whatever means is necessary.