It's interesting, I wonder what you guys think too. Earlier today I read a story about a man who tried to commit suicide by poisoning

himself, he was taken to hospital with liver failure where they saved his life by using a donor liver. The man and his daughter were

not happy about this because he wanted to die and that liver could have been used on someone else. Now I imagine this kind of

case is not unique at all.

I have never read a debate about this so I think it could be interesting.

So what do you think? should someone who tries to commit suicide be resucitated?

Link to the story

If people are prepared to go past the step of admiting it and actually take actions upon themselves then i dont think that he should have been saved.

Patients wishes need to be respected and if its his sane choice to take his own life then unfortunatly they should just let him/her go.

The waste of a liver is awful aswell as that could potentially have saved someone elses life.

I'm a little unusual in that I believe people should have the right to die. Obviously it's important that we try to dissuade them and make sure they're thinking clearly, but forcing somebody to live against his/her will seems like a violation of their personal rights to me.

Similair debates have been held on resucitating older people who like to die. But concerning suïcide, no I do not recall something similair.

I immidiatly thought yes, let them die if they so wish. People have the right to die if they so please. But a lot of people commit suïcide in spurr of the action moment. Think of all the Japanese unemployed people/students who buckle under pressure, the guy who'se heart is broken, the person who just lost a loved one or feels alone... many suddenly find something or someone that changes their live completely or would be a lot better the next day.

So I say resucitate them, and immidiatly offer counceling. But don't give them new organs immidiatly I mean, that was kind of a waste indeed. Couldn't they put him on a machine that produces gall or something similair first, then ask?

Doctors should take the patients desire to kill themselves into account.  Doctors consider a patients health, age, habits (smoking), and many other factors when they decide who gets a organ and make a list of who has priority.  Trying to kill yourself should really drop you on the organ list.

You dont want to waste a lung on a chain smoker when someone else needs it just as much and wont do any harm to their new lung, I see no difference between this and a person who is suicidal.

Well, if they do save him/her they will just try to kill themselves again, there's really no point in saving them in the first place.

If he gets an organ-donor card, the liver will be back on the market soon.

If that's all I know?

Yes.

Most people who try to comit suicide are mentally ill.

However, If someone was deemed sane who wanted to end their life then let them.

It's not for us to decide. The doctors took an oath. They have to save a life. I saved a guy who'd been arrested several times, got drunk, and decided to hang himself. My superior told me, "Next time, just let the sunnova bitch die." I don't think I could personally live with that course of action.

In my old job, suicidal people were a weekly event. We'd get these people and get them psychiatric/psychological help. Most of the time, these people don't repeat the act (and sometimes, they blow their heads off, instead of taking pills). It's not for us to decide, I don't think. If you can help, then help!

I used to be suicidal, myself. I sucked at it, though. Lucky for me, my life is now awesome! If someone had an opportunity to save me, I think I'd be grateful. Maybe not then, but definitely now. Dead is dead. That's it. Game over. Living means you get a second chance to fix things

I typed this on a Wii and my wrist hurts, now!