No clue if this is actually the case as intelligence is very difficult to measure in the first place.
Perhaps thoughtful people are just more likely to start considering it. I.e. if you don’t generally think and wonder about life then suicide might be something that just never crosses your mind. Thoughtful people tend to seem more intelligent (even if they really aren’t, it’s just a personality trait) and so this could give one reason to why people believe that intelligent people are more likely to do suicide.
Yes I don’t know if that’s actually a scientific fact-but I know I’m definitely much smarter than the average person and have thought about suicide since my teens, perhaps even sooner-when I realized I was a product of my parents and I didn’t really like them.
I think smart people think everything through to it’s logical conclusion…for instance, I know if I keep working where I am, most likely it’ll be the same crap for years and years…things that previously were emotional like holidays, special events, etc lose their meaning.
For a while I was in an innocent little bubble and life was good-I was happy…but once you see life for the struggle it really is-then it loses value. The only times I’ve been truly happy was when I was dating girls I really liked.
But just as I’ve become a man-my real self, I’m now too old to take advantage of my traits. I think about suicide often-everything has lost it’s shine for me. I just worry about the devastation I’d cause for those I’ve left behind. A number of people rely on my wisdom and common sense to stay grounded. It’d be like me losing someone I care about…but then we all will die and eventually no one will remember us.
Death really seems like an attractive prospect a way to turn it all off-all the emotions, the suffering, the memories, everything. I am happy there is no afterlife that we know of-I think it’d just be torture to live forever. There’s some things I have left to do but suicide seems like a great idea to me-if it was easy to do, I would’ve done it already.
Even if smart people attempt to think everything through to a logical conclusion, they are human and are subject to making mistakes and being misinformed and uninformed.
People that are happy with their lives shouldn’t commit suicide. Is that a logical statement? If yes, are smart people too dumb to be happy?
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Probably because they don’t kid themselves?
No clue if this is actually the case as intelligence is very difficult to measure in the first place.
Perhaps thoughtful people are just more likely to start considering it. I.e. if you don’t generally think and wonder about life then suicide might be something that just never crosses your mind. Thoughtful people tend to seem more intelligent (even if they really aren’t, it’s just a personality trait) and so this could give one reason to why people believe that intelligent people are more likely to do suicide.
Because they realize that life is all smashed up inside a ball of cow dung, and a recycling beetle is rolling the ball uphill.
Wishing the very best to you, in philosophy and avoiding possible death by suicide–which can happen to anyone.
Yes I don’t know if that’s actually a scientific fact-but I know I’m definitely much smarter than the average person and have thought about suicide since my teens, perhaps even sooner-when I realized I was a product of my parents and I didn’t really like them.
I think smart people think everything through to it’s logical conclusion…for instance, I know if I keep working where I am, most likely it’ll be the same crap for years and years…things that previously were emotional like holidays, special events, etc lose their meaning.
For a while I was in an innocent little bubble and life was good-I was happy…but once you see life for the struggle it really is-then it loses value. The only times I’ve been truly happy was when I was dating girls I really liked.
But just as I’ve become a man-my real self, I’m now too old to take advantage of my traits. I think about suicide often-everything has lost it’s shine for me. I just worry about the devastation I’d cause for those I’ve left behind. A number of people rely on my wisdom and common sense to stay grounded. It’d be like me losing someone I care about…but then we all will die and eventually no one will remember us.
Death really seems like an attractive prospect a way to turn it all off-all the emotions, the suffering, the memories, everything. I am happy there is no afterlife that we know of-I think it’d just be torture to live forever. There’s some things I have left to do but suicide seems like a great idea to me-if it was easy to do, I would’ve done it already.
Yes. I agree that at some point all things that we do looks illogical. Those who are conscious about death will encounter this situation.
Even if smart people attempt to think everything through to a logical conclusion, they are human and are subject to making mistakes and being misinformed and uninformed.
People that are happy with their lives shouldn’t commit suicide. Is that a logical statement? If yes, are smart people too dumb to be happy?