Ok my teacher went on a rant on how suicide is for selfish cowards. And I don’t understand how she can say this, yes its a bit selfish but I think its more selfish to make someone live when they have so much happens to them and they have been strong for so long don’t they understand there is only so far you can bend before you snap? Also how can they say its for cowards they have never had to pick up the blade, tie the knot, gag on the pills. They don’t know how much courage it takes to end your life to have the choice to end all the pain, if your like me when I tried to comment suicide the first time two years ago you stop barely in time, because you can’t leave your little brother alone with your deadbeat mother and her insane boyfriend.
It just makes me so mad also when people think that having suicide thoughts are something like a game my adopted mother says ” You are so smart, you’ll have a bright life ahead if you stop with all this crazy talk”. Yeah I so chose to have depression and the child form of PTSD. What they need to know is its like are minds are poisoning us going over and over with the moments when we couldn’t save Our sibling showing us just how weak we are telling us its better if we die, they just don’t understand!
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This is very true. A person can never fully understand something until experiencing it themselves.
Tottaly agree, we’re not being selfish, we’re just looking for what’s best for us and if someone is extremely sad and doesn’t wnt to live then ok.
I think saying suicide is for cowards is something cowardly in itself for a person to say. I think by saying this people try to distance themselves from the reality of other peoples suffering. They don’t want to think about the fact that something in life could have been so horrible as to drive someone to commit a desperate act such as suicide. Instead of having to actually put oneself in the other persons shoes, it is much easier to simply say they were “a coward” or “selfish”. When you tell people about your problems or even suicide you begin to notice how often people become frustrated with you or simply call you “crazy”. In reality they cannot really be truly compassionate or comprehend the full range of human suffering. They are in essence deadening themselves to the mystery of human suffering, because to try to understand it would cause THEM too much suffering.
Every situation is different – I would agree that not ALL suicides are enacted by selfish and cowardly … in fact very few … but SOME are motivated by selfishness and by cowards trying to escape the consequences for crimes they themselves committed and brought on themselves. That said … many people will never be faced with horrors and pressures and illnesses that will drag them down to levels that make this option seem better than the alternative. they’ll never get to a place of even considering it – at least not seriously so they have nothing to gauge why suicide becomes a realistic and viable option other than that which the media and colloquialisms provide
Generalization are almost always inaccurate or untrue outright.
Ask your teacher if a captured soldier would be a coward and selfish if he committed suicide to preserve military secrets to avoid days/months/years of torture to extract those secrets? I’m sure your teacher will stammer and throw out bullshit excuses as to how that’s different because it’s war … but if it were different there would be another word for it … and to my knowledge there is no other word … only different reasons.
war dawg
some people feel like a coward if the don’t commit suicide!
It is not selfish, I live it everyday, the feeling desire to kill myself. The point is that no person has the right to make another or try to make another feel as they do. We are not all the same and do not feel or perceive life in the same manner. That is why we have wars, and killings and rape of all kinds, In a world that is overpopulated with lots of starving and children dying all over. Those of us that can see this madness and feel this madness if we, I want to end my life because it causes me unbearable pain and shame to be part of such an ugly world. As Apple makes billions of dollars using the sweat shops in china with 13yo kids working 16 or more hours a day in a lock down factory as you blissfully stand in line for the next blood inspired iphone or pad. Yes I am the selfish one for wanting to leave such a corrupt world behind. If humanity cared so much about life why do we kill everyday. I suffer from major depression it is not my fault, I was anti depressants for years with bad side effects. So It seems that many people feel I should live, dont worry be happy, sorry to tell you stable types it is not that easy. I have dealt with depression from the age 8yo most likely from birth. I am 55yo now PLEASE just let me be able to have a doctor and any friends and family that have a heart come to a nice EU with peace and happiness as the center stage, not the feeling or hurtful words such as selfish and cowardly, why does humanity always want to do harm?????????????
It’s so not selfish to kill yourself. Your giving up the rest of your life because of the shit you’ve been through. If you were to give your life savings to charity it’s not selfish is it? People who say that it’s selfish, are pieces of shit, who don’t know a fucking thing.