(Plato: 62). Socrates understands that we live under God's jurisdiction, and we must do what is right, to properly serve our duty to God. The intricate part of Hume's argument, is that he is not forthrightly stating that suicide is always permissible, it is the certain circumstances that can justify suicide that Hume is preaching. Therefore, if we are sick and find no purpose for life anymore, that is this compulsion that Hume states is permissible for suicide.
The second disposition that Hume focuses on is the duty that we have to our neighbor, and how suicide is not always a transgression to our duty to them. When we commit suicide, it is not just your own life you are altering; you change the world of your family, friends and loved ones by your absence. There are certain people that care for us deeply, and if we were to vanish, they would be heartbroken. Though the ones closest to us may be affected, Hume argues that there are instances where a suicide can actually be beneficial for society, and creates no burden after. It is because the people, who decide to commit suicide, often offer nothing to society, due to their willingness to abandon existence. Again, Hume is illustrating the fact that there are certain loopholes in the theory that suicide is always a criminal act. It is very rare that someone is such a detriment to society that it would be permissible to end his or her own life. If there were a situation where a man had a gun to an innocent man, then the best result from that would be for the man with the gun to commit suicide, thus making it permissible in that situation. Many philosophers argue that it is the posthumous penalties towards the community that makes suicide an undesirable experience. Aristotle wrote that "Now when a person kills himself in a fit of anger, he acts voluntarily in violation of right reason; and that the law does not permit. Consequently, he acts unjustly.
