SUICIDE: ITS MORAL, LEGAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSES

Abstract

Voluntary decision to take one’s life is termed suicide. The issue of suicide has generated
heated and controvertible argument as some were inclined to recommend suicide on
certain grounds while others spoke vehemently against suicide. It is from the foregoing
that this paper seeks to underscore some arguments for and against suicide taking into
cognizance the moral posture regarding the subject matter (suicide). Does man's free
moral agency license him to do anything even to include willful taking of his life? Is
there any gain living when all hope is gone, or in the face of suffering a terminal and
incurable disease? Sometimes ones losses the essence of life and comes face to face with
suicide as a better and only option. What is the socio-economic, political, legal and moral
stand on suicide? These and more are the concern of this paper which in conclusion
negates suicide.