Tuesday, September 18, 2007

'Should people be given the rights to end their own lives?'

Write a short response of 100-150 words, bearing in mind that you should write in standard English.

14 comments:

EvilSign said...

To me, i think they shouldn't be given the rights to end their lives because when many terrible things happen to you that make you feel that if you never tell someone you will explode and have no meaning to live, but if you die, your future that you always been dreaming of will all be erase.
Just like me, almost everday, my house will definity have all kinds of problems that i wanted to talk about but i just cant say it out.And i actually wanted to end my live so nothing to be worried about and nothing to be stress of.
But after thinking about it, i think i should live on and i also wanted to have a good future when i grow up.When i came to school, i tried to calm myself down and take away all terrible thoughts out of my mind and get into study.
So i think they should think twice of what will happen to them when they thought of ending their lives.

MapleSiao GM
Shawn Lee(22)

Get me mesmerized♥ said...

Well, The Right To Die ?

Our lives are not ours to take, they belong to God and only He can decide when our lives should end.

& Who are these people who think that they have rights over my body? To live or die, excepting obviously when unavoidable, is MY decision, not my family or friends but MINE. There is no debate about it.

Whereas, i think that my life ain't precious anymore. In lifes, there would be up & down.
Moodswing would always be right here besides me.

Yea, alrights.
I shall pen down already.

WITH LOVES,
MISSY♥
LYEYUESHI. o7! D:

Simplicity said...

To me,we should have the rights to end our own lives because it is our lives.Bt,we don't know what will happen.It is because,we belong to god.God created us and he know how and what our lives should be started and ended.But some people think that it is unfair for them to end their lives just like that.Many people would commit suicide when they have a problem.Commiting suicide is not the best problem to solve everything.So I think,we should let god decide on how our lives should be ended.

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Anonymous said...

Many people believed that it is their rights to end thier life but have they known who were the one who had given them their life? They should think about that. It would be such a waste if they had killed themselves as if they were not born, they may not get to experience how humans, creatures and life is like.They will only have a feeling of hope to see how its like.Well, they should believe that God can only decide when they should move on to the after life.

We should cherish every year, days, months, hours, minutes, seconds and moments that we live in this world. Who knows that with
life, earth is the only place where we can seek for love.It would be such a great experience to live. Though there are many who misunderstood things because of stress, they tend to elliminate themselves without thinking about the good aspects in their life.No one in this world has lived in the best life nor the worst life.
Everyone in this world will face difficulties to get a wonderful life in the end.

We should not eliminate ourselves because of our feelings, or pains that causes suicidal.We should look at the brighter side of things and live on our lives until the time is right for us to move on.

This Question has no wrong or right answers but i would rather wait for God to take my life away and send me far away from life. The experience to experience life is way more precious than ending it faster because we will never know wether we will go to heaven or hell.I rather take my time to do good deeds so to hope maybe there will be a better chance for me.

Love your life before it ends.Time will fly pass when you are having fun and fun time may end fast.Life brings great resposibilities and with responsibilities, there will always be a reward in the end after accomplishing it.Responsibilities will also lead us to a happier and healthier lifestlye.


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][mapleboy][ said...

I think they can end their life if they want to but end their life won't help them to solve their problem and the truth is those who end their life are those who cannot accept the reality like for example if one of your best friends betrayed you and if you cannot accept the reality, you may wanted to commit succide and cannot think or any other solution. Only those who can accept reality are never let setback make them fall.

Actually I am not really sure about it.Hope you can understand >.<
From:Wei Long(17)
Can don't find complicated on people.

Ahmad Hannan said...

So logically thinking, I believe they already have the rights to end their own lives.

Isn't that right? I mean, if anyone wanted to commit suicide, it's up to them, they've got their body we have ours. Even if we tried to stop them they'd have probably pulled the trigger already (however they got the gun).

But for anyone to wish to commit suicide must truly be demented or BORED.

And in what sense is "should people be given the rights to end their own lives?"

Wouldn't it sound a lot liike "Should people be given penknives to slit and mutilate themselves?" Doesn't it sound similar?

The statement shows the idea of GIVING someone rights. Who gives rights anymore? Well unless they have high authority and would do something bad if you don't have their rights.

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But even so, the statement gives me an image of...

A man, with another guy (no they're not gay),

Let's call them Chap And Bloke respectively.

They're having a nice talk until...

Chap suddenly gives Bloke a gun and says this to him.

Chap: Here, this is a gun, I am giving you the RIGHT to end your life.

Bloke: Hey thanks! I was just about to ask but now I don't have to!

Bloke points the gun towards his head with a smile on his face and a finger on a trigger, knowing he has be given rights, (like we are given money) he happily pulls the trigger, the gun goes off and Bloke's life ends.

Chap: Poor Bloke...

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Wow, would you ever think such a thing would happen?

No, a big fat, flatulent, loathing
NO

So I think the statement sounds rather absurd at first (be given rights... haha...).

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Alright, I'll be serious this time.

I don't think anyone should be given any rights to end their own lives. I don't think the idea of giving rights was a good one in the first place either!

No one should be given any rights to kill themselves.

Even if they did, someone or something in heaven would go
"Oh, stupid man/woman..."

So all in all, I don't think there is a right answer to this question (or is this another one of Mam's rhethorical questions that she makes us answer in her blog?).

I simply think that the statement is rather(actually, very) amusing yet absurd.

Ahmad Hannan (15)
"Hey, Don't Give Me Rights To End My Life!"

Life said...

hi mrs.lau :D sec4 NA student here , i chance upon your blog, and is interested in this topic :P so can i leave my thoughts here? i will presume a yes :)


my point of view on this topic is that people should be given their own rights whether or not to end their life, before they are pronounced, brain dead or also know as 'vegetable'

I could only bring myself to agree to medical terms whether or not to end my own life. I find that if one ends their own life due to problems that will be faced in our life, lack the resilience to succeed and thats when i think they should face the music instead of avoiding the problems. Running away using suicides is a very irresponsible actions, you assumed that you lifted a burden for you and your family however you didn't realize that your actions bring about the same equal amount of sadness to the ones that was close to you.

Also i read on a book, "life strategies" by dr.phil he said this "whichever actions you took, an outcome is decided" i find that this is very true and that we should always think about the outcome of our own actions. If a mistake is done, we should not brood over it, instead we should be creative or daring enough to solve the problems.

thats my opinion.thanks :D

Jianyang, 4D

AMRH BELO; said...

People should not be given the rights to end their lives.Because,this is my own life and yes,i believe only god should decides when our lives with end.

Well,in my opinion,it's my live.No one can do anything with my lives.Some people think of getting commiting suicide,well this is not the other way of wanting to die.Only god knows when we're leaving the world.

-Ammirah(: ,12

Anonymous said...

Why not?

When beings are born, they have the rights to make their own choice and bearing their own consequences, tit for tat, but on the other hand, the rights to end their own lives is a no-no.

Like Marilyn Monroe, she ended her life by overdoes of sleeping pills, but most of the sucidal ways are gruelsome and tormenting.

By ending ones life, they are practically controlling the soul but they are also killing another person, which is body.

Those dead ones bring agony to those who are alive, thus, they have the rights to end their own lives.

Solitudinous said...
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Solitudinous said...

Personally, no.

Ending of one's life means deliberately killing of him/herself - which is a crime.

Stress and relationship conflicts are two of the major problems that leads to suicidal. Yes, they might have this mindset thinking that "Hey, since no one loves me, what for I live on? I could just drop down dead and no one cares."

My ideal to solve this situation is to really calm down, and reflect, not to the extend of ending their own life.

On before the calming down procedure, these kind of problematics needs a lot of care, trust and of course love.

To conclude, one should adhere to reflect and not by ending his/her life.

LIFE IS PRECIOUS! (like many have said)

meiyean said...

Looking at a religoius point of view, we got life from God an d that only Him has the right to take live away from us and we are His creations. We got life from him and till he deems it time to take our live, we are expected to suffer and accept this crucial fate. Suicide is a sin as humans have no rights to form judgement on themeselevs

However, personally, i don't think that it is right to let a person suffer such humiliation and not die in dignity.