We’ll do what we want to

It’s also bizarre that pure strangers who nothing about your life are telling you to keep living. Their rationalizations don’t make sense either. “You have so much to live for.” Umm how the hell would they know? The reason one thinks about suicide is that you have nothing to live for. What do they mean ‘so much’? Like what exactly? Poverty, violence, old age, loneliness, diseases, hatred from others? What exactly is there to live for when a person has found no reasons for continuing to live.

“It will get better.” So now these ‘pro-lifers’ are clairvoyant, they’ve seen your future and they KNOW it will get better. Talk about throw-away, meaningless one-liners, that have no meaning.

“There are people who love you.” No there aren’t-if there were, chances are the person wouldn’t be in this predicament. Most people who consider suicide have been driven to that point due to terrible relations with family and friends. Not counting the ones with mental illnesses or other issues.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve tried to be positive with suicidal people-but I don’t blow sunshine up their ass, telling them a bunch of fake, stupid crap this isn’t factual or logical.

What I will say however is that sometimes (for suicidal people) their problems can be overcome. They lost a pet or significant other and are depressed-get a new one. They’re depressed-see a therapist, examine your life and change it. Certainly in some situations it is possible to improve your existence. However for others who’ve hit rock bottom, who’ve had enough-don’t want to go on, would be too difficult to change, then I think they have every right and and reason to end a bad life.

None of us had the choice of being born-it was forced onto us by our parents. But that doesn’t mean one must live out a bad existence-no matter how cruel and painful it is. The other side of this ‘puzzle’ is that society should off a safe means of euthanasia. It’s something that people need to fight for-the way we did for abortion rights. People shouldn’t be forced to resort to risky, dangerous, unreliable means to end a bad life. But the smug religious lunatics “know better than us” and think it’s in our own best interest to keep living right till the bitter bloody end.