What if you get given a difficult life so that you end it….just to prevent something horrible from happening.
For example, I kill myself because life is horrendous, but my life is meant to push me over the edge because in a years time I cause a crash that kills 5 people.
Random I know, but if everything happens for a reason then I often wonder what the reason is.
Thoughts?
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My thoughts? I don’t believe in destiny. Nothing is preordained, you are your own master.
I can’t pretend to understand the structure of the universe or why anything happens, but Hitler didn’t kill himself before causing the deaths of thousands. Good people die and bad people don’t everyday. Every depressed person i’ve ever known has been deeply empathetic and sensitive, probably much like yourself, so i can’t imagine what higher purpose their or your suicides serve. Hopefully that made sense.
It does make sense but I think back to when things have gone wrong in the past and always thought well maybe I wasn’t meant to there because I would have been hit by a bus….very random I know. I’m not religious but I wonder if the universe has given me something that’s destroyed me just I can’t do what I was meant to….
I think like that too. It’s random but i think about how an author i like, sylvia plath, went through years of depression which probably never made sense to her, but then she wrote an incredible book about it which went on to help thousands of people understand their own depression. Her dark and lonely life led her to create something so beautiful.
Maybe your death will prevent something bad, but isn’t it just as likely that your choice to keep living will lead to something beautiful? If there are reasons for everything, i doubt we are capable of understanding them. I just hope the universe is ultimately merciful and forgiving, but who knows.