Someone wrote this and I really like it.
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I find people that scream “selfish” to those who consider suicide sort of…well…selfish! It seems like they’re saying “I don’t mind as long as YOU are the one that’s suffering unbearable pain for years on end with no end in sight. Buck up…it’ll get better…maybe.” The second someone actually commits suicide however and it’s them feeling any sense of pain, all of a sudden it’s a big problem. Are you saying that your feelings and emotions are more important than someone considering suicide? The huge difference is that a lot of people never get over suicide, whereas you will probably be over the death in a matter of months. How could you reasonably tell someone to put you before them, and then call them selfish if they don’t? I seriously think if a person came to any of you and actually professed the true darkness they felt, you would run in the opposite direction – I know from experience actually. Which also begs the question, if you’re not willing to care or help, what gives you any right to comment on my choices in life? The moment you chose not the help is the moment you lost all right to judge the situation.
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To say that Suicide is selfist is to say dying and death is selfish.
Do we call the dead selfish, no.
Then why do we call the suicidal selfsih? It is used to detaer us from suicide.
They attatch a negative word to suicide, in hope to detaer us.
That is why people call it selfish, it is not that it is selfish, it is just used to detaer us.
Society taken collectively has a stigma agianst suicide, try and find other stigmas that society has, and then see if there are negative words attatched to the people who do that stigma.
I agree with frozen frog. It’s not just to deter, but also to help others to accept the death. If others can direct fault towards the deceased suicidal then they can absolve themselves of any feelings towards the suicide.
This is so true. Well said, I’ve been trying to explain this for months.