no. I believe anyone should be able to kill themselves anywhen anywhere anyhow anywhy. highly neurotic ppl are incredibly easy to exploit so keeping em alive serves the interests of the well-established exploiters of the world perfectly. + its non social-darwinistic to let weaklings survive. besides you can say "didnt mean to" after a long time as well. Im sure the disillusioned communists at the end of the soviet era didnt mean for it to turn out like that i.e. a failure. hypothetically (or actually) some of those may have impulsively suicided before then if it wasnt for arrangements meant to prevent such. not dying just prolonged their suffering. but esp when it comes to neurotic ppl they may end up feeling their lives were in vain & they shouldve ended it way earlier. they might say they might say they didnt mean to afterwards to save face or make their rescuers feel good or sth?
why give primacy to the long-term? its nothing better then the short-term. often it can be worse cuz damages sustained early in life frequently follow one throughout life. neurotic ppl are the least likely to improve i.e. their fate, while not wholly predetermined is fairly predictable. if you had your way youd try to fix them anyway, which indubitably would involve being put thru the wringer i.e. boring & humiliating hours of therapy (w/ the therapist ofc making lots of money on trying to "fix" this wreck of a person, when itd be more economical to just let em die, but dont allow that to become the dominant opinion cuz if so then the therapist have fewer sisyphean uneconomical tasks to make money off of), being given shitty unnatural drugs which mess up who ppl are & destroy genuineness while also letting big pharma make money off of this. if suicide rates were down, itd allow ppl to keep thinking that civilization "isnt THAT bad" & thus perpetuate this oppressive system. it might even reduce the suicide rate cuz ppl mightve an easier time cinging to this forced, illusionary sense of hope. "hey others pull thru w/o suicide so mb I can too" (except those others are fucked up on drugs).
not letting ppl impulse suicide is also a slippery slope. like I said, give them an inch they take a mile of rope which they use to hang you w/. this is why I wont give you even a foot in the door by allowing for exceptions like "but impulsive!". if impulse is wrong, who's to say depression isnt? whos to say ANY reason for suicide isnt wrong? Ill have u know lots of the assholes out there, if magic existed (or more accurately, IMO, IF it exists, which it may, but ofc Illuminati wouldnt tell us) theyd be sure to change reality w/ this magic so that no one could kill themselves, effectively making us all prisoners of this universe until the spell is lifted. some part of the bible or w/e says sin starts in the mind not in the action. well, thats true here too, but ofc I dont consider suicide a sin, unlike the oppresive, freedom-hating, life-biased christians.
suicide is an entirely legitimate answer to life. if one believes in multiple lives, then suicide means discarding a bad hand & drawing new cards. if one doesnt, then suicide may be an end to suffering, ensuring life doesnt overstay its welcome.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2951...oblem-and-that :
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.”
if at any single poin in a person's life the answer is "no, its not worth it" & if theyve got access to an acceptable (from suicidee's pov, that is) means of suicide at that time, I believe they should not categorically be stopped from going thru w/ it. anyone whod deny others their desires clearly hate the world. otherwise, theyd be able to take reality by the horns. sine they dont, it means they are weaklings. others are a means to an end for them, namely shoring up their defences against the world. even the exploiters in power are often such weaklings cuz they wouldnt make it in a world w/o their BS system to abuse. both the exploiters (lawful evil, if d&d is ur thing) & the "altruistic" ("goodies" & "neutrals") ppl are nicer then the crude brute (chaotic evil). that is, they know how to ease the boundary between their ego & theirs more, they know more to defer gratification super-egoically so as to be awarded more later, often at the expense of others.
also, anti-suicide commodifies wealth, as if it wasnt commodified enough already. e.g., smn who has the money to travel to switzerland & make use of their suicide assistance has an advantage over those who cant.