My earlier comment in response to this:
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Originally Posted by [B
Motorboat Cruiser][/b] 
It is interesting that, when someone is suffering from enormous physical pain, such as from a terminal illness like cancer, suicide is often seen as a justifiable route. And yet, if that enormous pain is mental, rather than physical, their inability to cope is often viewed as weakness, selfish ... the easy way out. |
was addressed to the view from the "outside" and how it is seen a justified under one condition and not justified under another when, in fact, both situations involve physical diseases they just effect different parts of the body.
I agree that the effects of diseases differ greatly. The effects of your liver hurting is different than the effects and outcome of your brain not functioning properly. However, they are both illnesses. We, as a society, just seem to be more accepting of certain malfunctions of the body than of others.