We're all going to die one day..so why is suicide wrong?

Ok, it's not selfish. But it's not exactly great to put your family and friends etc. through a load of pain, when with treatment for depression and support etc. you might get a good quality of life back and then all the pain would have been for nothing.

You know in a way..suicide is a way of telling life..**** YOU life..you don't get to decide when I'm going to die. I'm going out on my own terms

I don't think suicide's wrong. I think it's sickeningly tempting. I look around my life and I have so many things to be gratefull for, yet I still find my mind wondering to death on a scarilly regular basis. I couldn't though. I just don't have the nerve, which makes me hate myself even more, which makes me fail to see the point in life even more, and so the cycle continues.
But this isn't about me.
I don't think suicide's wrong. Some pain just doesn't end. Some problems can't be fixed. If a person is in that bad a situation and feels that bad that they feel they cannot go on, I'd have respect for them having the nerve to end it, and be glad that they weren't hurting anymore. It's like when people die of a long and painfull disease. Only the disease isn't in your body. It's in your mind.

Life might get even worse there's nothing to say it will necessarily improve so you don't kill yourself and you get rewarded with 50+ years of even greater pain and suffering. But that's ok, because at least your family get to watch you hate every second of your miserable life.

Suicide goes against the most basic human instinct, which is survival. I'm not saying it is necessarily wrong, and certainly not in all circumstances, I'm just stating the arguments you might use to say it is wrong, because that is what the OP asked.

Like everything, there's another way to look at this.

Suicide is also a way of showing you have the strength to do something about it when you're in a bad position.

I have been through some sh*t, and sometimes people tell me about how I'm strong and they respect that. But they're wrong - the only reason I am still alive is because I was too weak to do myself in when things got tough. I let it happen to me, and did not take the only way out of the situation. What right do I have to complain about what happened to me when I didn't solve the problem, despite knowing the solution?

To the OP, I agree.
Our bodies are the only thing which always should belong to us, no matter what the circumstances. Society does not agree, they want to control your own body. They prevent you from putting drugs into it, you can be sectioned for harming it too badly, and everyone will abandon you should you want to kill it.
My body is my own. I don't appreciate society and gov't deciding that they in fact own my body.

Life might get even worse there's nothing to say it will necessarily improve so you don't kill yourself and you get rewarded with 50+ years of even greater pain and suffering. But that's ok, because at least your family get to watch you hate every second of your miserable life.

It's very unlikely you'll going to have 50+ years of a misirable life....i mean it may be up and down, aka one year is even worse then the previous but somewhere it will get better, and somewhere it will get worse again.

Even you do live in one of those countries where you just dont have the power to make anything better and things just always seem to be terrible - but even they seem not to look on life like that.

Even with disabilities/mental illnesses, being tortured for years, things get better - because we learn to deal with them =).

Not in my experience. I think a good deal of it depends on what's wrong anyway, you can't make blanket statements that it gets better for everyone, there's nothing to say that the mental illness won't increase in severity and therefore give even more symptoms then before - getting "used" to it isn't really an option then. I'm just pointing out why the other poster's mindless optimism isn't necessarily going to apply across the board.

For criminals this is true. But surely not about the rest.

Mmm...*Shrugs*...i always try to find the bright side in everything. And i mean everything. Even when i was literally homeless at some point, i was trying to find the bright side to it, and at that point the bright side was literally 'can't get that much worse right now...'. But that was enough for me to be able to hold on.

And even if you cant make a blanket of statements - thinking it could get better (even if it wont) is better than nothing. Hope is better than nothing.

And at least with mental illness there's a little bit more you can do over physical illness...like with some of the medications, or taking people for days out to cheer them up etc. Whereas physical illnesses like cancer, if they get worse they get worse...

Idk, i dont really have experience with deterioating mental illnesses that didnt end in suicide(so i didnt get a chance to see what had really happened after deterioation). The ones who i saw were seriously mentally ill beyond proper functoning, couldnt get much worse anyway. So the only way was up.

But yeah, I think its vital to always try and find a bright side/hope to hold onto.

Why is suicide wrong? We're all going to die.some of us just want to die earlier than others. You say think of your family and friends who will be devastated if you commit suicide..will they be jumping for joy if I died a natural death?

Depends on the person tbh...for me it's super strength not to do it, and that's the same for other's too.