Acceptable Suicide?

[devonin]

Who has the call to say that a person's reasons for suicide is valid? Who has the supremacy to judge a person as insane or is right for treatment?

Appropriately trained psychiatrists and psychologists do. If the person is found to be of sound mind and still wishes to kill themselves, then I support their right to do so 100%. If they are found to not be of sound mind, they should be treated as such.

The norm dictates the 'abnormal' and deems them as suicidal.

Um...no. I'm pretty sure that they deem "People who want to kill themselves" as suicidal. There's nothing in there for societal norms to influence. You want to kill yourself? You are suicidal. You don't want to kill yourself? You aren't suicidal. It's an issue of what the word means.

Furthermore they deem suicidal as insane. But since thy've never experienced it they have no right to judge it.

Seems pretty clear to me that people who are suffering from a chemical imbalance in their brain that is not the way the brain is supposed to function, and is leading them to act in ways that are not characteristic of how they would be acting were their brain operating as it was deisgned to don't need someone else to have personally gone through it to recognize it.

I mean this stuff is medically testable. They can simply tell you whether these things are properly in balance or not, so once again, I don't think a) Society concludes that suicidal people are -insane- so much as troubled of mind or b) that you need to somehow have been suicidal to analyze someone's brain chemistry and see that things aren't right.