Suicide Can Be Rational

Ending one’s life can prevent decreases in one’s lifetime well-being.

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DISCLAIMER: I am not advising people to take their own lives; rather, I’m presenting a philosophical argument for why suicide can be rational.

To say that some action X can be rational to do is to say that one can have good reason to do X. So in the case of suicide, to say that it…