At present suicide is a sin and the church teaches this. The church argues against suicide by saying that we are not the owners of our lives and because of this we are ‘obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it for his honor’. However the ability to reason is God-given and therefore because of this ability we are able to come to the conclusion on whether or not suicide is acceptable. Another argument made by the church is that ‘suicide contradicts the natural incliniation of the human being to

Thirdly is an argument made by Aquinas. He argues that suicide can be justified to suffer a lesser danger and avoid greater evil. Aquinas uses the example of a man whose arm is decayed and needs to be removed from his body. He says that by the man killing himself he avoids a greater evil such as living in shame of sin. On a moral ground surely it is hard to say that another person is not entitled to end their own life.

One argument made by Hume si that of nature. He says that each day we change the course if nature and natural order of the world. The example used is that if a stone was to fall and was heading for someones head, then a persons instinct would tell them to move out of the path of the stone. By doing this we disturb the course of nature. We also disturb the course of nature by changing the channels of a river such as the Nile. Hume says that what then is criminal of ‘turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel.’ Here we see the contradictions in natural law.

Another claim against suicide is the possibility of rational suicide. Ja

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