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…In the video "Patch Adams" we are pushed to see with the eyes of god, viewing people with no distrust or contempt. Patch grew up with a somewhat problematic past, and this rendered him suicidal. His father died when he was nine, and he never really…

…seems to be considering suicide. He is wondering whether it is more courageous to continue living in pain and suffering or if killing himself would be a more noble thing to do. Also, Hamlet is having a debate within himself as to the advantages…

…Euthanasia, a term for a physician assisted suicide, has been in debate for many years. Those against euthanasia points out the morality of the act, declaring it immoral to kill a patient in life support without the patient's consent. Those…

…planned. Although his social skills seem good, he lacks the sexual drive of the majority of mankind. Upon his departure, Chris left goodbye notes and gave away his possessions; he clearly was on a no return mission, possibly suicide. "He wasn't carrying…

…more guns are available the death rates go up because when someone is contemplating suicide if a gun is not available that person will most likely resort to a less lethal method, survive and never attempt suicide again. Some shocking death statistics…

…still." The atmosphere is dark, quiet, and gloomy which sets up for the murder of the king Duncan. The last setting that affects the plot is at Dunsinane with the banquet, Macduff, Birnam wood, and Macbeth's wife's suicide. First at the banquet Macbeth sees…

…precious possession, to prove her love for her father. Hedvig will enter the garret to kill the duck but end by killing herself in a chaste and bloodless suicide. She dies for her father's love. The irony is that throughout the play Hedvig intuits the lunacy…

…"Tulips", a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about Sylvia Plath's experience in a hospital after she had tried to commit suicide. The poem illustrates just how depressed the author was at the time and how the slightest initiative of happiness was distracting…

…statement of his desires to die: Hamlet wishes his "too too solid flesh would melt" and that suicide was not a mortal sin. Hamlet states "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, /Seem to me all the uses of this world!" In this statement, he asserts his view…

…"The porpoises" by John Gurney has an interesting beginning "Plutarch would have called it suicide". At first you have no idea what this beginning means, but as you read further you come to comprehend that the writer is referring to the porpoises…