is it anybody's business if someone chooses to commit suicide?

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Philosophically, I believe the answer is no - whether or not to continue living in this world is a completely personal decision. And any god who, as the previous poster claims, refuses to grant forgiveness to someone who is in enough pain to choose this path is not a god I want anything to do with.

Unfortunately, in real life the question isn't that simple. Many suicides are committed by folks who are lost in an episode of major depression. For those who may not be aware, clinical depression is an entirely different animal from what the rest of us experience as "having the blues" or feeling sad and upset about something. It's caused by a chemical imbalance and some of its worst symptoms involve shifts in perception and emotion to the point where the person feels completely worthless and can find nothing in life that seems worth living for.

I've experienced this myself, and I have a couple of friends who also suffer from clinical depression or bipolar disorder.Knowing first hand how warped one's perceptions become during an actual episode of clinical depression and how powerless one is to change them, I have on occasion made it my business to do whatever it takes to get someone who's in that place to hold on long enough to get treatment. I don't believe that a decision to suicide made during a major depressive episode is a choice that's made freely and clearly.

No body business by Jesus Christ, who forgive
every thing but self murder.

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