Acceptable Quote by Wesley J. Smith

This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it…

— Jerry Stahl

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

— Leo Tolstoy

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

— Susanna Kaysen

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem." They say, it's not an "answer" in any way. Taking your own life is SE…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will…

— Susanna Kaysen

In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as…

— Ram Dass

“Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in…

— Mary Beth Miller

With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We…

— Arthur Caplan

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self…

— Katy Butler

“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody…

— Sally Brampton

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

— Honore de Balzac