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On the Ethical Dilemma of Suicide in Longevity as Sacrifice for the Social Ideal

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Article Title: On the Ethical Dilemma of Suicide in Longevity as Sacrifice for the Social Ideal

Author: Tomáš Hájek*

Published Date: August 04, 2025

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2025.62.009807

Abstract:

Psychiatry uses several models to explain mental disorders: the psychosocial, organic, agnostic (atheoretical), and drug-like model. Two basic categories of suicide are described – balancing suicide, where the motivation for suicidal behaviour stems from reality, and pathological suicide, which is essentially caused by psychopathology [1]. Pathological suicide is the primary focus of medical studies and the opinions differ, based on parallel existence of several models explaining mental disorders. However, opinions on balancing suicide may also differ, as the key philosophical questions cannot be definitely answered; for example, the most basic of questions, whether the world is monistic, dualist or pluralist and in what sense. From the medical perspective, specifically in psychiatry, the topic of suicide is by principle an open issue that cannot be concluded with any definite knowledge.

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