Re: is suicide a final act of bravery or cowardice?

Is committing suicide the same when it is done by someone who can no longer stand the pain of a terminal illness or someone who straps a bunch of explosives on his or her body and tries to kill off innocent people?  There are people who are suffering with physical pain or psychological pain that is so intense and there often to seems that this pain will never get better.  Should this person continue to live in this extreme pain if he or she can longer tolerate the pain?