Suicide and the Sixth Commandment: You Are Not Allowed to Kill Yourself Anymore than You Are Allowed to Kill Another Person

I often say that I am not, or that I do not appear to be, particularly religious. And yet, once you think about it — as I have pointed out in The Real Reason for Secularism (For the Left, the Golden Rule and the 10 Commandments turn out to be a major problem) — religion turns out to be far more humane than secularism. After all, leftists do not consider their neighbors and their fellow citizens as (equal to) themselves, but as children, either as innocents in need of protection or as dirty brats in need of punishment.

Leftists at the head of a nanny government obviously don't think you are their equals, socialists do not believe in "do not covet" (taxes), communists do not believe in "do not kill", nanny governments do not believe in "honoring your father and mother" (your family) — certainly not above Big Brother — and above all, all of the above do not believe in "Do not bear false witness."

 … Bearing false witness: leftists allow themselves to lie to others, and they allow themselves to lie to themselves — all to bask in their own valor and glory, as these knights in shining armor turn everything upside down.

In that perspective, leftists have been presenting suicide (like abortion) as not only beneficial, but in need of assistance (like everything else) from the state. In her article, Canada Might Begin Euthanizing Kids Without Parental Consent, Catherine Salgado notes that one particular truth that leftists have been hiding is that "Leftism really is a death cult."

Some of the politicians in the increasingly Communist and dictatorial country of Canada are reportedly still considering allowing kids to be euthanized — even without parental consent. That is outright murder.

It is incredible how everyone can agree that children and teens are not of age to decide they can get tattoos or drink alcohol, and leftists lose their minds at the proposal that minors should learn how to handle firearms safely. But at the same time, leftists screech that kids should be able to choose to receive cross-sex hormones and even permanently mutilating surgeries for “transgenderism” from the earliest ages. And in the future, apparently, the kids who are banned from buying cigarettes might be able to request suicide without their parents knowing.

In his series on the Ten Commandments, Dennis Prager points out that the original Hebrew says not, Thou Shalt Not Kill, but Thou Shalt Not Murder. 

Whatever the case, the point remains that, according to none other than God Himself, you are not allowed to murder, or to kill, your own self anymore than you are allowed to murder, or to kill, another person (i.e., your neighbor whom, according to the Golden Rule, you are supposed to treat as well as yourself, and vice-versa). If you must treat your neighbor as your self, and if you are not allowed to kill him (or to lie to him), it stands to reason that the only conclusion is that you are not allowed to kill (or, for that matter, to lie to) yourself either.