AbstractThis article develops a different perspective on the ethics of suicide, based on theoretical and clinical grounds. In terms of value theory, applying “good” or “bad” to the suicide act makes no sense. We need to shift our focus from a search for an ethical statement about suicide (e.g., “rational suicide”) to the ethical justification for intervention based on the needs and interests of an affirming therapeutic profession. We choose to intervene because of valueswehold about well‐functioning, existence, potential for human life; and because as empathic, social beings, we feel for others and are motivated by that feeling. This justification leads us to suggest a situational case‐centered ethics for suici