Is suicide wrong in this hypothetical?

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Suppose there is a person who lives a rather healthy, but barren life.  He has no family and no real friends, and no one who'd ever known him would care if he died and they knew about it.  This man, who has spent most of his years isolated from society, is very self-reliant and owes no duties or obligations to anyone.  He has no family to support and makes his own modest living doing freelance work for clients with whom he never associates again.  The man, finding no real purpose in his life and having no desire to go about changing it, commits suicide.

Has a moral wrong been done?

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

That he has no desire for change and yet is considering suicide seems contradictory to me. As the old song goes, "suicide ... brings on many changes". Also, while modern society does make it easier to live a less connected life, we all have connections.

So, because I find your hypothetical inconsistent, I refuse to answer it.

That was sloppy phrasing on my part.  It's a quarter to 8 and I haven't had any sleep.

By that I mean he has no desire to change his life so that he no longer feels suicidal, whether it's talking to a psychiatrist or reaching out to people he can build personal relationships with (as a psychiatrist likely would advise him to do).

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

I have and feeling you're alluding to yourself--to at least some extent--and recommend you cease this line of thought immediately.

I did not intend and I do not want to make this thread about me in any way.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Uh Scott, your questions are making me start to worry about you

I have always enjoyed your contributions to this board. I am rooting for you man.

I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to worry anyone.  As I told Tony in a PM, I've just been contemplating life a lot lately.  I don't like talking about my own problems with this stuff on a public forum.  But I will be okay.


And yes, that Chesterton quote has to be the most asinine thing I've ever read anyone say about this subject, ever.  Just what kind of pompous, uncompassionate scumbag would tell someone who genuinely wishes to end their life, someone who is at a point of such grave desperation that they see no other escape from the pain they experience every waking moment of their life, that acting on their desire makes them morally inferior to a rapist or a thief or a murderer?  What a bunch of pretentious, unadulterated nonsense.