LIFE: Existential concern

The choice to take one’s own life is a very existential concern. It’s a question of one exercising his existential right, to live, or not to live, taking the core issue of one’s life being shaped by their own individual choices, owning up to the responsibility of one’s actions to the extreme; thus, very justifiable by our post modern morality and its emphasis on passionate individual experiences, as essential to reaching truths in this life, as this act pertains only to the Self, and no other.

However, viewing it in a more conventional light, the 6th commandment forbids man from committing murder: in essence, from taking life. That, is solely a privilege of God. By taking one’s own life, we are in complete discord with the teachings of the 6th Commandment. Thus, though the act seems to embody the ultimate existentialist right of man, it is a direct flouting of the teachings of God.

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