Reply #14: Are you sure you're a liberal?

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The notion that people who commit suicide are "cowards" and that they need to concern themselves more with the reactions of others than themselves (for their own lives don't matter as far as conservatives are concerned) is a purely conservative stance. A a liberal would take a very different position on the matter.

Liberalism asserts that a person's life belongs only to him or her, and no other person has the right to force their own ideals that life must be lived. Rather, only the individual involved can make such decision, and whatever decision he or she does make, should be respected.

Philosopher and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz goes further, arguing that suicide is the most basic right of all. If freedom is self-ownership, ownership over one's own life and body, then the right to end that life is the most basic of all. If others can force you to live, you do not own yourself and belong to them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_views_of_suicide