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Christian arguments against suicide turn on the extension of the sixth commandment ‘thou shalt not kill’ to the questionable interpretation that this commandment forbids self-killing as well. I do not see the entailment between forbidding the murder of others – a wholly legitimate aspiration – to the prohibition of suicide, which is premised on a misunderstanding of the nature of human liberty. In addition, the prohibition of self-killing poses a huge problem in the interpretation of cases of martyrdom and the deaths of innumerable saints, particularly when one considers the early history of Christianity. The Christian martyrs chose to go to their deaths out of love of God and hatred of the state or any other form of temporal, pagan authority. If the crucifixion of Christ himself can be viewed as a quasi-suicidal act performed out of love, then…
Passagem de Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley.