Reply To: Any Reason Not To Save A Potential Suicide?

Before we go any further, I just want to make this point in bold. I said it above, but I want to make it clear lest my question be misunderstood:

This entire discussion is not to be used on a practical level. If you, God forbid, know of someone attempting or contemplating suicide, do anything and everything you can to save him or her.

In addition:

I want it understood that I am not considering the fact that people who commit suicide today are wicked. It is well understood by medical and religious professionals that people who commit suicide today are probably not mentally competent as they are overwhelmed by their pain and suffering beyond their ability to reason. They are not to be considered wicked. They and their families are to be shown every compassion.

That being said, my discussion is based on a hypothetical that may never even exist in reality (like a Ben Sorer U’Moreh according to many opinions). It’s based on a person who wants to kill him/herself while being perfectly sane and capable of rational decision making.

The Wolf

(My apologies. I don’t normally “shout” like that, but I wanted those points to be well understood.)