Can suicide be a rational choice?
I am lucky, with a life that many would envy. But I am also deeply unhappy. Presumably as a result of a chemical imbalance in my brain, I simple cannot appreciate the things that keep everyone else going. I have read self help books and I have taken medication. But still I am unhappy.
I know objectively that my life is worthwhile and that I should be grateful for what I have. But subjectively I cannot feel it. Perhaps I could spend my entire life drugged up to the eyeballs on antidepessants and somehow get through, keep up the act. But is that worthwhile?
I do not wish to hurt my family, but in truth I am tired of suffering. Must I continue this way to deny them pain?
All I want is to left alone and to find peace.
Is that wrong?
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Albert Camus said it was the most important philosophical question anyone need concern themselves with.
Yes I happen to think suicide is a rational choice. I like Sublimity’s response too. Some people rush into it I guess. More than those who rush I think are those who might have a fit of suicide while they are drunk, high or strung out in withdrawal.
Most people mull it over for a good long time I think. There’s a “3 day rule,” I’ve read. And I’ve been mulling it over for over a quarter century myself. To me, most folks seem fairly circumspect in looking at suicide’s various angles.
It could be said that people have the rest of their lives to decide whether suicide is right for themselves. So yes I think most people choose carefully.
Yes, it’s the most rational thing you could ever do.
I feel exactly the way that you do. Nothing is right and nothing seems to have meaning. I don’t want to hurt anyone but I honestly just DON’t CARE. I could probably be described as a sociopath except I also don’t feel anything for MYSELF.
As changeling (above me) said, you have the rest of your life to mull it over. There’s nothing stopping you and It’s not wrong to just want peace.
Someone tell me the purpose of life? There isn’t one. You “live” and you die. If you truly think there is nothing here for you, there really truly isn’t because it ultimately comes down to your brain’s perspective on things.
Remember: you are not selfish, wrong, sick, or irrational to want peace for yourself.