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People who commit suicide
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I feel more sorry for the people that they left behind to deal with it.
I feel they are lost and assuming they are at the end of their rope because there is no goodness or hope in which to compare the future. They are simply unable to see beyond the awful situation they are in. It's sad, but often times it's something they aren't able to move past.
Sinon said:
Seriously?
Despite your own reasons.People commit suicide for different reasons and at times it can't be helped. Sure, Its a good thing you didn't do it. But not everyone is like you.
I lost a friend to suicide and he died because his wife divorced him and took his kids, and he never got to see them. The courts made things very hard for him. She moved several states over and he suffered for it until one day he couldn't handle it and he pulled the trigger. He was loved by his friends and family and not one of us thought he was a weak person.
I've been there myself on more than one occasion (attempted it) and that's my first, last and only word on the subject.
"To deal with it." You folks need to be careful what you say. "To deal with it" sounds like the people who took their own life have left a burden behind, that dealing with their funeral, dealing with the grief, is a burden. A lot of people who do take their own life do so because they feel like a burden, they feel worthless. Further, it sounds like you're calling their suicide a "mess" that their family has to clean up. Choose your words wisely in the future.
This is one of those times where just because you can speak, doesn't mean you should. This is such a shitty, heartless, arrogant opinion. I don't give two fucks that you've gone through it before, you have no right to shit talk people who are suicidal and/or have committed suicide. For some people, it has nothing to do with being weak or worthless. Are you calling all the women who were sexually assaulted their entire life worthless cowards because they couldn't bare the permanent scarring? Are you calling VETERANS worthless cowards for taking their own life after serving a country that doesn't do this for them? Are you calling gay and transexual people worthless cowards for killing themselves due to bullying?
May I remind you NONE of us were asked if we wanted to be in this world. None of us got an opt out option. So sorry that you are this high and mighty gem of gold while us suicidal peasants take up valuable breathing room, but some of us literally have no reason to be here. Show some respect to the dead, show some respect to those still here struggling. If you can't be respectful with your opinions, you don't get to talk.
This. 100% this. I have said it before and I will say it again: I never wanted to be brought into this pitiful excuse for a world of pain and suffering populated with cruel, sadistic bipedal monsters who thrive on using and abusing each others, and I can't wait to get out of it.
Since we are born, we are bombarded with 'you must do this, you must do that, you can't do this, you can't do that, you must live, you must go to school, you must get educated, you must work, you must get married, you must have children, you must, you must, you must...' Aaaaaargh! Stop it! Stop telling me what to do and what not to do! I don't want any of those things! None! I don't want to get "educated", I don't want to work, I don't want a family, I don't want to even exist on this pathetic planet! Leave me the fuck alone.
Humans apparently hold life dearly, they cling to it like it has some meaning, some purpose, like there's a big fat reward waiting for us at the end of the road, and the only way to get it is to live for as long as possible, no matter the cost, even if it means suffering.
Screw that. Once the last of my immediate family members is dead (I don't care for the extended family members; they can all burn in hell for all I care, fucking backstabbing selfish jerks), I'm offing myself in some way. I just wish assisted suicide would be legalized, so I could have a doctor do it painlessly and 100% reliably.
I have no ill opinion. I don't even believe suicide should be a question about morality or about a person's character. It's sad. We'll never know why they did it or what they went through that put them in that position. I believe many people do it to end their pain. I believe if someone wants to take their own life, that is their right.
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Good answer! I'll go with that.
I have a friend who is over 90 years old, and is, effectively, committing suicide by refusing more medical treatment.
He's old, and sick, and tired, and doesn't want to go through any more treatments that only serve to make him feel worse than he already does, and are only postponing the inevitable by, perhaps, a few months to maybe a year. As it is, he has weeks left, if that.
But everybody that knows him understands that there is a point when enough is enough, and while he isn't "pulling the trigger" the result is the same in the long run.
If you want to call him a coward, do so. It only proves how absolutely ignorant some people can be.
He's old, and sick, and tired, and doesn't want to go through any more treatments that only serve to make him feel worse than he already does, and are only postponing the inevitable by, perhaps, a few months to maybe a year. As it is, he has weeks left, if that.
But everybody that knows him understands that there is a point when enough is enough, and while he isn't "pulling the trigger" the result is the same in the long run.
If you want to call him a coward, do so. It only proves how absolutely ignorant some people can be.
Thats his choice, if I were in that situation I would probably do the same.
IMO....that is not suicide; it is, rather, stepping aside and letting "nature take it's inevitable course". I could be wrong, but I think that's what hospice care is all about; just making a patient as comfortable as possible for whatever time they have left.
Certainly is the same course that I would choose.
No, he's not committing suicide; he's simply decided he's had enough. That's more akin to euthanasia than suicide.
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