Suicide is always going to be ugly and unless it is a revenge suicide, you want to lessen the hurt for those you leave behind.
In the UK you can top yourself and not have suicide on your death certificate, which lessens the stigma.
The coroner calls it a “narrative” verdict.
There is a bunch of ways to get this (alas this would involve talking about methods),
but basically it boils down to how impulsive you make it look.
However, leaving a suicide note will nearly always get you a suicide verdict (i.e. less impulsive) , but then again you want to let people know it wasn’t their fault.
Whats worse? Leaving a note to lessen the impact or not leaving a note to influence a narrative verdict and lessen the stigma?
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I’m not in the UK, but I plan to leave a note. Though I wouldn’t really care one way or the other what they put on my death certificate. I’ll be dead.
Stigma is for the living. Who cares what others think when you’re dead? At least your family will have an explanation.
I think it’s better for there to be a record of the increasing number of people who would rather die than persist so miserably in this world.
I think it’s better for there to be a record of Why people would choose to die, instead of waiting through years of misery for it to find them naturally.
If the problems remain invisible, they can’t be perceived.
If the problems can’t be perceived, they can’t be understood.
If the problems can’t be understood, they can’t be solved.
If the problems can’t be solved… then suicide isn’t wrong. It’s just really upsetting to the people who have lost someone. But their feeling of loss will only last as long as their own lives.
Life is temporary, and therefore so are all these problems.
Suicide comes down to whether i want to live 10 more years of debilitating misery, or 10 more minutes of acute physical distress, to summon death early.
Another great post clevername