[Al Swearengen]

Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

Woah, we've almost crowned a new top thread again. SBLive! is jumping this month.

Anywho, I'm with Al on that one. Mother Nature is still, by far, superior to man. Not only the hurricanes, but consider the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, each devastating to mankind. Mankind is still, very much, under Mother Nature's rules.

As far as suicide goes, my views on the topic may sound somewhat harsh, but I consider suicide the coward's way out. Suicide, much of the time, is caused by a person's inability to find hope. The problem here is that we are always the source of our own hope. Our ability to stand up and keep going is, in a way, its own source of hope. Only when a person has willingly convinced him/herself that all hope is lost, does suicide become an option. This is the foolsmate.

I must disagree. Suicide is oftentimes a merciful, dignified release from needless agony and suffering and a kindness to the survivors and heirs. A person in the last stages of a chronic, terminal illness has usually reached the point where they accept and even welcome the release and relief that death brings. Not to mention the fact that the depletion of a family's savings helps absolutely nobody.