Like weird pornographic films.

Life is not for everyone and it's temporary for a reason folks, it gets boring after a while. You know it's like a good sitcome on Tv...it's ace for the first season and maybe the second and then it gets boring and you have to throw in an alien or a long lost son to make it interesting....and then it ends and you are so pleased.

Life is like that. The golden years? DOn't make me laugh...there is nothing Golden about getting old....youth is good...being old sucks, and I know that causes I've worked in a nursing home and I've seen old people so messed up with mental problems they can't ever recognise their own children and they'd most like commit suicide if they could figure out a way to do it with pudding....it's horrible.

So my point is that old people, in fact anyone should be totally free to kill themselves because for many people life just isn't cool. You know, it's like a movie, if you have sat through half of it and it's sucked every minute the chances are it's not going to get better right towards the end and you would be fully justified in walking out.

Life is the same, or should be legally. It's a pity when kids and teenagers kill themselves because they never gave it a chance...but adults..anyone over say 30....fair play.

And it's not the cowards way out..if it was...anyone who was scared of anything would do it.

Man, Kevin for someone who's under 30, you seem a bit into the whole getting old isn't cool mojo...

Youth is basically lack of experiance, and that "lack" is what many of us call innocence...To say the least.

Being young isn't cool, never was, never will be. But being older and being a contributing member to society, is where its really at...

I still can't believe you want your youth back...God you are soo uncool...

You made a lot of good points, Kev, I agree that there should be an age limit on suicide just like there is on alcohol, but perhaps a bit higher. 30 is good, though I've met my fair share of 30 year old idiots who need more time to grow up. Maybe 35? Well anyway, I've been guilty of saying "suicide is cowardly," but it really isn't. We just say that to scare people out of it. I've contemplated killing myself in the past and the main reason I did NOT kill myself is...I was too chicken. Hell, I'm glad I didn't, really glad...but I am not going to sit here and claim that I never bothered killing myself because I worked up the courage to live. Ha! That is ridiculous. And you know many cultures consider suicide honorable. Sort of like self sacrifice, or punishing oneself for something unbearably dishonorable. Anyway, Kevin is right.

Life sucks, but it shouldn't suck 100% of the time. If yours does, well...

Anyway, Kevin is right."

Umm...Jane I think you're missing the whole picture here...

Lets not pretend every senior citizen in the world has mentally decayed. My grandmother is in her 70's and can still knock us young pups on our butt on a night out on the town. There are plenty who are capable of taking care of themselves until the day death knocks on their door. Now if you are incapable of taking care of yourself or you have a terminal illness, I can see wanting to just get it over with. I had to watch my Aunt whither away with cancer, begging the docs to just overdose her, but there are those who suffer needlessly, young and old, merely because they don't want to take their medication or help themselves.

Yep Nicko Licko, about time you kicked the ol' bucket ;)

Kevin's not saying that ALL oldies have crap lives. Similarly, he's not saying that they all should be pushed to stick a knife in their stomaches if they forget to pick up the milk on the way home even tho thats what they went there for... he's just saying if you're life is crap, if you're hating living, if you're dragging everyone else around you down and you dont like it, if all you can think about and all that consumes you is to end this miserable life when you're that old, who are we to tell them they cant?

I agree with you Kevin.

The overall response to this thread surprises me.

Kevin, why the hell is it acceptable for old people to kill themselves exactly? I don't get it. I mean, it would do wonders for the economy, but why is it acceptable for any person to kill themselves over any other person from a purely moralistic point of view such as yours? And though I agree with the freedom of life/death thing, I wish people would fight harder to make good threads, instead of utter rubbish such as this.

But, hey Kev, you got a whole two years left in you, so you know. Feel free to be an idiot.

Here is how to kill yourself with pudding, by the way. Wedge a spoon upright in it and bang your nostril down upon the handle. It worked a treat for my geriatric mate Trev on his 32nd birthday.

Life has it's ups and downs... and it's not like a t.v show even if the first ten years suck the rest will be better and even if it doesn't get better people should remind themselves of others who have lives worse than theirs... and mainly people give up at the wrong time.. after they take their lives something good was about to happen to them... I mean I always wished my life was one of those mexican soup opera peoples lives... after hours of thinking about my life I discovered it was... I just didn't see it!

How is this like wierd porn????

Does it matter if its legal or not?

you cant exactly throw a dead guy in jail.

Ah, Dave, what am I supposed to do with your example? I am talking general cases here and you are talking about one case, which is a personal one to you and asking me if my theory fits.

Well, no of course it doesn't, which is why you included it. NO theory covers every angle, doesn't mean anything and certainly doesn't mean I sound like a complete idiot as only idiots makes assumptions about others peoples intelligence.

And to the poster who asked why my original post was titled like weird porn, well, because talking about these matters, as has clearly been shown is a bit of a taboo for some people, much like weird porn.

Simple really.

Lol...

Guess the game is over....No!