I hate when people say “killing yourself is selfish” like it’s a bad thing. Who are you to tell me what to do with my body and my life? Yes, I agree killing yourself is “selfish”, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Every suicide, in my opinion, is a self mercy killing. If you’ve had cancer for X amount of years and it causes you daily pain, your loved ones would accept that you don’t want to live in that pain anymore. They would come to support you in your decision to end your life MUCH sooner than when it’s a suicide, caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. But, since our pain is invisible, only to be felt by us, it’s a crime.
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This is true.
Hard to get people to accept it.
But yeah.
Two things here
[1]
“I am” still has a couple of new comments by this weird emotional girl you’v been talking to
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Why is this always a reoccurring topic?
It feels like there’s someone out there with whom u’r always debating about “suicide, is it selfish?!” & then u come here steaming that it’s not 😀 …
what’s up with that 😀
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in [1], may I add “overly” emotional
😀
I agree. Selfishness is not necessarily a bad thing, and suicide is mostly just desperate. People tend to react and lash out at what causes them pain, what they fear, what they can’t control. If they didn’t call it selfish, they’d call it something else. Can’t say I blame them, but it can really add to the suffering of the suicidal person. Like we need anymore of it, right?
so true. We suffer more because no one can see our illness.
It’s not chemical imbalances.
The problem is rather that we live in an individualistic age where life is supposed to be a smooth ride and look good on Instagram too.
Life is far messier than that. Life is an endurance sport. That’s all it is.
It’s too bad that the subject is not talked about more. It’s still taboo to bring it up and many times when someone reaches out for help, it is dismissed because they don’t know how to respond. The “you know you can call me” thing or ” Oh things will be fine and get better” bullshit gets old but seems to be the most common response. I wish people would learn about depression and how hard suicide is to actually do. It’s selfish to them because they obviously have never felt depression so bad that you are thinking of suicide.
The thing is, people don’t know a fucking thing. They think ‘Oh, he killed himself, he just run away from the responsibility, what a coward!’ or ‘Look what she’s done to her family, what an egoist!’. They say all this and can’t realise that, in fact, they are fucking cowards and egoists, too indifferent and scared to even try to understand.
I love this comment.