Suicide is defined as an intentional and uncoerced self-killing in which the conditions causing are self-arranged. Suicide has been condemned as necessarily immoral by most western religions and also by many philosophers. It is argued that suicide defies the will of God, that it is socially harmful and that it is opposed to nature, thereby degrading humanity by treating themselves as a thing rather than as a unique human being. The applied ethical issue of suicide focuses on two problems of whether suicide is permissible, and if so whether suicide intervention is permissible. Although many ethical issues emerged only recently, the issue of the moral permissibility of suicide has long been a history in a philosophical discussion. The ancient Stoics condoned suicide, but they believed in universal human freedom. Depriving any group of individuals or any person of freedom of choice, whether subtly, is contradictorily opposed to the principles. Many critics of the view that demands the right to suicide point out that, while liberty for some may result, others lose their freedom – older people who would not choose to willing but would be pressure into the choice by family members or doctors, as well as those who might make an irrational choice for death when they were temporarily in pain that was adequately controlled, those suffering from the effects of disease, or those who are severely depressed or under the influence of drugs or alcohol, which depicts a "rational" decision impossible.
             Most supporters of the right to die and of the "death with dignity", as well as those who favor rational suicide and legalized assisted suicide for the old, argue from the perspective of terminal illness and pain and suffering. For instance, Plato opposed suicide since it "frustrates the decree of destiny"(Plato, 1993); he also argued "the gods are our guardians, and that we are a possession of theirs, then the...