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The Sucide As a Christian Ethical Issue

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2011, (21), pp.103-132
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

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ABSTRACT

Korea society’s suicide ratio is the top of OECD nations. This high suicide ratio reveals a fundamental problem of our society. The prime cause of suicide is a result of economic crisis and a radical change of the structure of our society since 1998. So our society filled with a shadow of death instead of life and hope. It is evident that our society prevails to have a trend to neglect-life. In this paper, I want to survey the prime cause of suicide and then to seek the solution and prevention of this suicide problem. Also I want to stress an importance of proper bio-culture and suggest establishing bio-culture. Individual causes of suicide are a shocking accident, conflict, a lose of hope, a feeling of helplessness, painful torture, extreme property ect. Also an irrational socio-structural contradiction results in suicide. Committing suicide is not only an individual issue but also society’s disaster and reveals failure of our society. Suicide brings social damage and collapse of the family because they destroy their life themselves. Some support suicide base on the right of ownership of their life and respect for autonomy and the final exit of pain. But we should consider that life is given as a gift and duty. We should take notice the priority of the principle of non-maleficence over respect for autonomy. Suicide damages themselves and badly affects their family and their community. So preventing suicide is the duty of a community and ethically moral. Above all, to prevent suicide from spreading the movement to respect life based on the dignity of life, and positive motivation for the meaning of life must precede and should recover real solidarity of communities. Also education of suicide prevention should go ahead and a suicide prevention system must be established. These are the main roles of church for suicide prevention. First, the church recovers solidarity by establishing a proper viewpoint. Second, the church and cares for the living family of the one who committed suicide. Third, the church respects alienated people and gives love and care to them. Forth, the church notices contradictions of our society and makes effort to seek diverse solutions for these problems by long-term perspectives.

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