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Cluesome
- Apr 5, 2018
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I presume the "victim" didn't want to be held alive when she would be at the death's door.
Also, an interesting choice of words. Victim. I've recently learned an interesting word to describe it. Implicature. It's used to describe something that was implied in a sentence without it being clearly stated. What I think here is being stated is that she got harmed, and that she would be better off alive.
A surgeon may cut a patients limb (with patient's consent) to prevent a dangerous infection from spreading, but you wouldn't hear such a patient to be called a victim of a surgeon. The harm done to a patient (cutting limb; the lesser harm) was meant to prevent the greater harm, which would be a dangerous infection spreading to the rest of the body. And I presume that the person who died by suicide chose to do this to prevent the greater harm accompanied by continuation of life.
I wouldn't say that's the only reason because I don't think that everyone who opposes suicide benefits from keeping alive people who don't want to live, or at least not in the same way, but I do entertain the possibility that some of the reasons (religion, sanctity of life, morality, and such) stem from economic reasons.
Possibility: At some point of human history, where suicide was prohibited for economic reasons, appeared some religious guy who interpreted religious scriptures (to keep the slaves in check; shackles of the mind are more effective because they don't require physical restraint which alone is quite costly and ineffective as a way to control masses) as telling us that life is sacred, suicide is a sin, and people who commit suicide will burn in hell. Generations have passed under the religious influence, and cultures have been injected with anti-suicide stance which still echoes within the minds of modern people, religious or not.
