re may be reason in saying that a man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him, as he is now summoning me"(Plato, 1993). Aristotle also opposed suicide since it is "contrary to the rule of life"(Aristole, p8). Greek and Roman philosophers approved of suicide as a means of ending suffering.
             Furthermore, newspaper accounts and television programs on the topic of older suicide selectively portray the suicidal older person as ill and intense physical pain. These out advocates and media have mistakenly given the public the impression that most polder people who choose suicide are sick and in pain or are suffering from terminal illness. The fact is that this is not true. Psychological autopsy studies conducted in around the world show that most older people who commit suicide are not terminally ill, but only about 2% to 4% of suicides are suffering from terminal illness (Dempsey, 1977).
             Roman philosopher Seneca (Seneca, 1932) condones suicide in cases in which age takes its toll on us and prevent us from living as we should by stating that "I will not relinquish old age if it leave my better part intact. But if it begins to shake my mind, if it destroys my faculties one by one, if it leaves me not life but breath, I will depart from the putrid or the tottering edifice" – if the Roman philosopher Seneca knew that he must suffer without hope of relief then he will not depart from the world through fear of the pain itself but because it prevent all for which he should live. Stoic philosopher Epictetus (Voltaire, 1824) also endorses suicide. The principle moral theme of Stoic philosophy is that we should resign ourselves to whatever fate has in store for us. Epictetus suggests that, for some of us, there may be limits to what we can endure in this life and, so, when things get too intolerable, we may wish to end our lives (Voltaire, 1824). Epictetus also decribed a person's...