The Philosophy of Suicide

Beyond that, you mentioned the response here:
https://mikyab.net/שות/מוסר-בהקשרים-לא-חברתיתים
“There is a way of life that is not ethical, although it is difficult to say that it has a moral problem, such as a nihilistic life of pleasure alone without engaging in things of value”
Suicide is equivalent to a life without value because you waste it without utilizing the potential for value-based engagement (whether it is just wasting time on pleasures or wasting life by committing suicide, it is the same).

Beyond that, there is the moral aspect of harming your family and friends by causing them grief by your departure. Beyond that, there is a certain harm here to your parents who invested in raising you until now and you are throwing their investment away.

There are obviously moral aspects to this, but the bottom line is that I find it hard to see why a person should sacrifice themselves for the sake of others. If their life is not worth living and they are suffering, should they continue to suffer their entire lives so that their parents don't suffer or feel that their investment was in vain? I doubt it.

thanks!

It seems to me that there is something ethical here beyond the realm of halakhic law, because the binding validity of the halakhic and moral command ultimately rests on a sense of gratitude (ontic) to God. That sense of gratitude does not belong to the realm of halakhic law because it is what gives it validity. God is the one who gave us life, and He is the one who created the suffering within it. So it is impossible for suffering to be a sufficient reason for suicide, even without entering into halakhic considerations, because there is a kind of sense of gratitude (ontic) toward God. Perhaps we should reserve cases in which that person’s life is worthless anyway if he suffers from a serious and crippling illness, and then perhaps the person’s suffering really does decide the matter, but in the case where the person is still able to act on the moral plane in a minimal way, it seems to me that the right thing to do is to continue living, isn’t that so?

Ontic gratitude is not morality. In any case, I have already written that belief in G-d changes the value attitude towards suicide. Beyond that, I do not know how far that duty of ontic gratitude extends (how much suffering I am supposed to endure for its sake. It is not just about the inability to act, but about suffering).